Vad betyder meningen med den röda flaggan i Les Miserables?

En djupare förklaring till varför den röda flaggan blev en symbol för revolutionen, från länken , som fick sin information från M. Pastoureau i sin bok Les emblèmes de la France :

In July 1791, King Louis XVI and the Royal Family attempted to flee France, dressed as ordinary people. They were arrested in Varennes, on their way to Germany. It is often said that the son of the post house's owner recognized the king after a coin. Others said that the royal princesses were recognized because they were not able to walk correctly without a servant to assist them. Betrayal might be a more rational explanation.

The king was brought back to Paris. A "Republican petition" requiring the overthrowing the king was deposed on Champ-de-Mars, where the Fête de la Fédération had been celebrated on 14 July 1790.

A lot of people gathered to sign the petition. On 17 July, when the meeting turned into a riot, the Mayor of Paris, Bailly, ordered the hoisting of the red flag, which meant at that time that the mob should disperse. The National Guards shot without warning. More than 50 rioters were killed, and were immediately considered as the first martyrs of the Revolution. The red flag, "shed with the martyrs' blood" became the symbol of the Revolution by a weird inversion of its initial symbolism.

Den blåa och röda delen av den franska tricoloren kommer från Flag of Paris .

Jag tror inte att det har något att göra med den röda delen av den franska flaggan.

Generellt sett betraktas en röd flagga som en symbol för vänstervil politik och revolution

Hämtad från röd flagg wikipedia sida :

In politics, a red flag is a symbol of Socialism, or Communism, or sometimes left-wing politics in general. It has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution.

Det användes före den franska revolutionen som en symbol för uppror. Hämtad från Berättelsen om den röda flaggan

This (the french revolution) was not the first time that the red flag was raised, representing the revolutionary aspirations of the oppressed. The red flag has historically been raised by classes in revolt. In the struggles which rocked the rule of Rome, ultimately bringing it down, the red flag was the battle standard held high by slaves who had no way out but rebellion. And in the great peasant revolts that swept across Germany—peasant armies moved from one part of the land to another raising the red flag in their midst.

Den röda flaggan i Les Miserable är en virtuell karaktär i produktionen med sin egen historia båge. Det föreshadowed på små sätt som en duk och en trasa i en vagn, en mindre flagga och sedan en jätte triumfflagga som samlade demonstranterna och slutligen som en tragisk påminnelse drapade nära kroppen på barrikaden. Flaggan växer i storlek scen efter scen för att representera rörelsen tillväxt och finns där i slutet för att bekräfta demonstranternas död.