text: All writings on the colour are embroidered in gold, as well the unit number (or monogram) encircled in antique oak and laurel wreath in each corner of the colour.
  Obverse of a colour:
  République française
  (Name of the unit)
  Reverse of a colour:
  Honneur (Honour)
  Et (and)
  Patrie (Fatherland)
  (Battle Honours)
  Rifle battalions (chasseurs à pied)
  By tradition, all the Army's rifle battalions (the  together with the ) share a single collective colour. Individual battalions have pennants () and the flag of the Rifles () is held each year in turn by a different rifle battalion. As a result, the single flag displays all the battle honours earned by every rifle battalion.
  Other specific colours
  Since 1844, the obverse of Foreign Legion regimental colours do not carry the motto "" but "" (Honour and Fidelity). This motto was originally written on the flags of the Swiss regiments in French service, such as the  (85th Infantry of the line).
  The École polytechnique, as a military college, also has a colour which does not carry "" but instead "" (For the Fatherland, Sciences and Glory). The reverse of the École polytechnique's colour has one battle honour written under the motto: , awarded in 1901 by President Émile Loubet.
  Since 1880, the motto of the Paris Fire Brigade (which is a military unit belonging to the Engineering Arm), "" (Devotion and Discipline), is written under "".