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In France, it is mandatory for a municipality to hoist the French national flag in front of the town house (mairie or hôtel de ville). The flag is sometimes embroided with the name of the town like on the Tricolore flags used in Saint-Lambert or in Saint-Tropez. The municipality is also allowed to use a specific flag representing the town in addition to the national flag, like the vertically divided red-white-red, traditional flag of Saint-Tropez.
Dominique Cureau, 4 February 2006
On 5 January 1998, MP Dominique Paillé submitted the following written question to the competent ministry:
Is the design of the municipal seal, affixed to
the municipal acts, subjected to specific rules?
The answer, published in the Official Gazette of the
National Assembly, is "No".
The official seals and stamps of the municipalities shall authentify
the acts issued by the municipal authorities. There are neither laws
nor regulations prescribing the design of the municipal seals. Some
of them show the municipal coat of arms, the name of the municipality surrounded by a laurel or oak wreath, or, more traditionally, the effigy of the Republic [Marianne] surrounded by the name of the municipality.
The use of municipal seals is prescribed by the Law of 18 March
1918 regulating the manufacturing and selling of official seals and
stamps. Manufacturing them is not permitted without written
permission of the Mayor. Moreover, forgery, manufacture or fraudulent
use of municipal seals is punished by Penal Code, articles 444-3 and
444-4.
Ivan Sache, 15 April 2001
This list is not a comprehensive list of French municipalities but only an index of municipalities for which flag-related information is presented on this website.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| Abriès | Aiguefonde | Aiguèze | Aix-en-Provence | Ajaccio | Angers | Annemasse | Annœullin | Antibes-Juan-les-Pins | Arbois | Arcachon | Arc-sous-Cicon | Arcs (Les) | Arnage | Arques | Aubergenville | Audierne | Auxonne | Avesnes-sur-Helpe | Avranches |
| Bailleul | Les Baux-de-Provence | Bécherel | Bégard | Bellegarde-sur-Valserine | Bergues | Berre-l'Etang | Besançon | Béthune | Belle-Île-en-Mer | Beynes | Binic | Bitche | Blois | Bondues | Bonneville | Bordeaux | Boulogne-sur-Mer | Bourg-de-Péage | Bourges | Boutigny-sur-Essonne | Bray-Dunes | Bréhat | Bressuire | Brest | Briançon | Bricquebec | Brunstatt | Bussy-Saint-Georges |
| Cagnes-sur-Mer | Cahors | Calais | Calvi | Cambrai | Cancale | Cannes | Cargèse | Carhaix-Plouguer | Cassis | Castillon | Cayeux-sur-Mer | Cergy | Cesson-Sévigné | Chambéry | Chanteloup-les-Bois | Chapelle-sur-Erdre (La) | Charbonnières-les-Bains | La Charité-sur-Loire | Charleville-Mézières | Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban | Château-Bourdin | Château-Landon | Châteauneuf-du-Faou | Châteauneuf-Villevieille | Châteauroux | Châtelaillon-Plage | Chaumont-en-Vexin | Cherbourg | Chérence | Ciotat (La) | Clusaz (La) | Cluses | Cogolin | Collégien | Collonges-les-Premières | Colmar | Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises | Compiègne | Concarneau | Conquet (Le) | Coudekerque-Branche | Courdimanche | Courseulles-sur-Mer | Creully | Criel-sur-Mer | Crocq | Crozon |
| Deauville | Diebling | Digne-les-Bains | Dijon | Dinan | Dinard | Dol-de-Bretagne | Domfront | Donges | Douai | Dunkirk (Dunkerque) |
| Ecquevilly | Élancourt | Émerainville | Éragny | Erquy | Estaires | Étrembières | Évian-les-Bains | Évran | Eymet |
| Ferté-sous-Jouarre (La) | Flèche (La) | Fleury-les-Aubrais | Fort-Mardyck | Fouesnant | Fougères | Fourchambault | Fréjus |
| Gagny | Gimel-les-Cascades | Grand-Bornand (Le) | Grande-Synthe | Granville | Grasse | Grenoble | Guérande | Guerlesquin | Guingamp | Gujan-Mestras |
| Hambach | Havre (Le) | Hérimoncourt | Honfleur | Horbourg-Wihr | Houesville | Houlgate | Huningue | Hyères |
| Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (L') | Itancourt | Ivry-la-Bataille |
| Jarnac | Josselin | Jouy-le-Moutier | Juch (Le) |
| Kerlouan |
| Lançon-de-Provence | Landivisiau | Langeac | Langon | Laragne-Montéglin | Leers | Lège-Cap-Ferret | Levallois-Perret | Lille | Lillers | Loches | Longwy | Louhans-Châteaurenaud | Louviers | Lunéville | Luxeuil-les-Bains | Lyon |
| Magny-les-Hameaux | Maisons-Laffitte | Malestroit | Marcq-en-Barœul | Marseillan | Marseilles (Marseille) | Maurecourt | Meaux | Mende | Menton | Merdrignac | Meymac | Mézy-sur-Seine | Mison | Moimay | Moisselles | Molsheim | Montesson | Monteux | Montgermont | Montigny-le-Bretonneux | Montluçon | Montmélian | Montmorency | Montpellier | Montry | Mont-Saint-Michel (Le) | Morzine | Mulhouse | Mureaux (Les) |
| Nantes | Neubourg (Le) | Neuilly-sur-Seine | Niort | Nogent-le-Rotrou | Nogent-sur-Marne | Nort-sur-Erdre |
| Obernai | Orcières | Orléans | Ornans | Orval | Ornans |
| Paris | Pau | Pernes-les-Fontaines | Perros-Guirec | Perthus (Le) | Petit-Quevilly | Peyruis | Plestin-les-Grèves | Plomelin | Polignac | Pont-à-Mousson | Pontarlier | Pont-l'Abbé | Pontrieux | Pouldergat | Puiseux-Pontoise | Puttelange-lès-Thionville | Puy-en-Velay (Le) |
| Rambouillet | Remiremont | Rezé | Ristolas-en-Queyras | Roaix | Rochelle (La) | Rocquencourt | Rodemack | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin | Rostrenen | Rouen | Rousset-les-Vignes |
| Sables-d'Olonne (Les) | Saint-Amand-Montrond | Saint-Avertin | Saint-Claude | Saint-Cloud | Saint-Cyr-l'École | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire | Sainte-Adresse | Sainte-Mère-Église | Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine | Saint-Florentin | Saint-Flour | Saint-Jean-de-Sixt | Saint-Jean-de-Védas | Saint-Jean-le-Blanc | Saint-Lambert | Saint-Lô | Saint-Louis | Saint-Malo | Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay | Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts | Saint-Nazaire | Saint-Pantaléon-les-Vignes | Saint-Pol-sur-Mer | Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise | Saint-Quay-Portrieux | Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire | Saint-Tropez | Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue | Saint-Witz | Salles-sur-Verdon (Les) | Salon-de-Provence | Sancoins | Sangatte | Sarreguemines | Sartrouville | Sathonay-Camp | Saugues | Saverne | Segré | Séguret | Semur-en-Brionnais | Senlis | Sens | Sète | Sorbiers | Sospel | Strasbourg | Sucé-sur-Erdre | Surzur |
| Talant | Taverny | Tende | Theix | Thionville | Thiverval-Grignon | Thônes | Thonon-les-Bains | Tignes | Tillé | Toulon | Toulouse | Tourcoing | Tours | Treignac-sur-Vézère | Treize-Septiers | Tréport (Le) | Trouville-sur-Mer | Turenne |
| Valbonne | Valence | Valenciennes | Vallauris-Golfe-Juan | Valréas | Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy | Vannes | Vaux-sous-Aubigny | Vedène | Veigy-Foncenex | Vélizy-Villacoublay | Vence | Verneuil-sur-Seine | Vernon | Vern-sur-Seiche | Verquigneul | Versailles | Versonnex | Vertou | Le Vésinet | Vianne | Vichy | Villefranche-sur-Mer | Ville-la-Grand | Villelongue-dels-Monts | Villeneuve d'Ascq | Villeneuve-Lembron | Villers-sur-Mer | Vincennes | Vitrolles | Vitry-le-François | Vivier-sur-Mer (Le) |
| Waltenheim | Wasquehal |
| Zillisheim |
