New to bike forums, thanks in advance for any and all responses. Just came up on a 1989 Peugeot Versailles (found the 1988 brochure and identified that way). My question is at the fork end it’s painted blue white red (French flag obviously) is this something that Peugeot would’ve done or a previous owner did on their own? I’m not able to ask the owner, he is in another country and wife sold it to me but knew nothing about the bike. Unable to add a photo because I haven’t submitted 10 posts yet.

In the brochure it doesn’t show the fork ends painted that way but everything else is the way the brochure describes it and looks. Also forgot to mention on the top tube where the small font reads Versailles is missing. Actually looks like it was removed with a razor blade and painted over. Like a very small rectangle.

I’m a mailman and I’ve noticed it hanging in a customers garage for about 8 years and I just kept offering to buy it but the wife kept saying no that it was her husbands who I believe was in the Middle East but he hadn’t come back. Eventually the other day she offered it to me so there’s no one to ask questions about it. Per that 1988 brochure I found on bikeboom everything looks identical to the picture except for a Bianchi saddle and the French flag painted fork ends.