Qual é o significado da bandeira vermelha em Les Miserables?

Uma explicação mais profunda sobre por que o Red Flag se tornou um símbolo de revolução, do link , que obteve sua informação de M. Pastoureau em seu livro 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.

As partes Azul e Vermelha do tricolor francês têm origem na Bandeira de Paris .

Eu não acho que tenha algo a ver com a parte vermelha da bandeira francesa.

Em geral, uma bandeira vermelha é vista como símbolo da política e da revolução da esquerda

Extraído da página da Wikipédia com a bandeira vermelha :

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.

Foi usado antes da revolução francesa como símbolo da revolta. Extraído de A história da bandeira vermelha

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.

A bandeira vermelha em Les Miserable é um personagem virtual na produção com seu próprio arco de história. Ele é prefigurado de pequenas maneiras como uma toalha de mesa e um pano em uma carroça, uma bandeira menor e depois uma gigantesca bandeira triunfal mobilizando os manifestantes e, finalmente, como lembrete trágico perto do corpo na barricada. A bandeira cresce em tamanho cena por cena para representar o crescimento do movimento e está lá no final para reconhecer a morte dos manifestantes.