Where's The French Flag?

- Jack C. Ramsay, Jr.  with Chalena (August, 2005) Chalena says, “I agree with you Jack! No French flag!”

Answer: “The artist was never commissioned to draw the French Flag.”

“The flag of France is often included as one of the traditional ‘Six Flags over Texas’. This is based on the possibility that the French explorer, Robert Cavelier La Salle, may have crossed a portion of what is today the state of Texas. Although this remains a historical possibility, there is little likelihood that La Salle was in Texas long enough to claim Texas as a part of the French domain. For this reason no mention is made of the French emblem in any of my books about Texas.
“I commissioned five traditional flags plus three others (flags of Jane Long, the Texas Navy, and the Seven Star Flag of the Confederacy, which the Texas troops carried into battle when Texas entered the Confederacy [not the battle flag with stars and bars usually pictured and of obscure origin]). Most of the Confederate States were known to fight under their state flag. The seventh star in the Flag of the Confederacy was to designate Texas as the seventh state to join six other states in forming a Confederacy. These are the flags I believe were intended to fly over the entire area of what was known as Texas during 1819-1880, the time period for Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries. The French flag never reached this status and, for this one reason, is omitted from the flags commissioned. Though my father was always proud of the fact that Texas could claim six traditional flags, I think he might have rejoiced in my claim that eight flags flew over his native state during the time of Jane Long:

History is mystery
and I enjoy researching the mysteries.