François Mitterrand (1916-1996), President of the French Republic, adopted a square tricolor sea flag on April 8, 1982. It features a gold-embroidered half-oak, half-olive tree in the center, a personal symbol. Partially folded in its frame. The frame: Height. : 64 cm - Width : 65 cm Note: A member of parliament from 1946 to 1958, then a senator from 1959 to 1962 and again a member of parliament from 1962 to 1981, he was an eleven-time minister under the Fifth Republic before being elected President of the Republic in 1981 and re-elected in 1988.