France: Fifth Republic (1959-) - Presidential standards

Last modified: 2025-09-06 by olivier touzeau
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• Standards with personal emblem
  • Charles de Gaulle (1959-1969)
  • Georges Pompidou (1969-1974)
  • Alain Poher (interim president, 1969 and 1974)
  • Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1974-1981)
  • François Mitterrand (1981-1995)
• Standards without personal emblem
  • Jacques Chirac (1995-2007)
  • Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012)
  • François Hollande (2012-2017)
  • Emmanuel Macron (2017-)
• "President's" Tricolor flag with a narrow white stripe

See also:

• France
• France: Fifth Republic (1959-)

Standards without personal emblem

Personal flag of Presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande, and Emmanuel Macron between 1995 and 2024
flag at sea - Image by Željko Heimer, 23 September 2001

Presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron did not add any personal emblem to the standard's "template". Their flag at sea is square with three blue-white-red stripes, and the optical proportions. The presidential car flag is in proportion 7:8 with a golden fringe (not shown here).

Armand du Payrat, Željko Heimer & Ivan Sache, 23 July 2017

From 2024, a new regulation (Instruction n° 849/ARM/SGA/DMCA/SHD/DHS/DSD relative à la symbolique militaire dans les armées et la gendarmerie nationale du 10 avril 2024) introduces a pennant for the President of the Republic.
According to the Service historique de la Défense, representations are awaited in the autumn 2025 for the pennant mentioned for vehicles and/or aircraft for the President of the Republic in the 2024 regulation.
The Presidents have full possibility to adopt another symbol or their initials.

Olivier Touzeau 14 July & 25 August 2025