What do the colors of the french flag represent?

Question: What do the colors of the french flag represent!?
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- Blue is the color of Saint Martin, a rich Gallo-Roman officer who ripped his blue cloak with his sword to give one half of it to a poor who was begging him in the snow!. This is the symbol of care, of the duty that the rich had to help the poor!.
- White is the color of the Virgin Mary, to whom the Kingdom of France was consecrated by Louis XIII in the XVIIth century; it is also the color of Joan of Arc, under whose banner the English were finally driven out of the Kingdom (XVth century)!. It became logically the color of Royalty!. The King's vessels carried plain white flags at sea!.
- Red is the color of Saint Denis, the saint patron of Paris!. The original oriflamme (war banner) of the Kings was the red oriflamme of Saint Denis!.
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The blue and red were the ancient colors of Paris, to which the Commander of the Guard, Lafayette, reputedly, added the royal white!.[1]

The exact meaning of the colors has been added after the fact!. It is sometimes said that the colors of the French flag represent the three main estates of the Ancien Régime (the clergy: white, the nobility: red and the bourgeoisie: blue)!. Blue, as the symbol of the bourgeois class, comes first within the colour enumeration and red, representing the nobility, comes last!. Both extreme colours are situated on each side of white referring to a superior order!.
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