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France is one of Lebanon's main trading partners, and more than 4,500 French companies export to Lebanon. [7] In 2015, French direct investment in Lebanon totaled €534 million. [ 7 ] Nearly a hundred French companies operate in Lebanon in various sectors such as in the agricultural, telecommunications, retail, petroleum industry and financial ...
Beaufort, a French crusader castle, Lebanon. In the 13th century, the king of France, Louis IX pledged to protect the Maronites. [2] In the 16th century, Francis I of France forged an alliance with the sultan of the Ottoman empire, Suleiman the Magnificent; the Ottomans controlled the region and granted the French monarch the role of "protector of eastern Christians". [2]
The paper won the Grand Prix de la Francophonie from the Académie Française in 2021. L'Orient-Le Jour journalist Caroline Hayek was awarded the Albert Londres Prize for her coverage of the 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut. [6] The paper covers politics, local and international news, finance and economics, culture, entertainment as well as ...
Although there has been sporadic migration from the Middle East to France since the 17th century, the real growth of the French Lebanese population began in 1975, with the start of the civil war in Lebanon, which drove thousands of people away. Other wars with Israel, and economic mismangment leading to more economic, political crisis and ...
The traditional ‘Made in France’ label is an incontestable draw for customers – the Pro France Ifop survey [3] (September 2018) reported that two thirds of French people ‘often’ or ‘systematically’ take the product’s origin into account when they buy a product or service, and that three quarters of French people would be ...
The foreign policy of Lebanon reflects its geographic location, the composition of its population, and its reliance on commerce and trade. As'ad AbuKhalil argues that foreign intervention has been a mainstay of Lebanon's domestic politics throughout its history as a nation-state, with British, French and American influence predominating from the declaration of independence in 1943 until the ...
Armand Blanquet du Chayla (with the title of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary) 1952: 1955: Georges Balaÿ (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary until 1953 and then Ambassador) 1955: 1960: Louis Roche: 1960: 1964: Robert Barbara de Labelotterie de Boisséson: 1964: 1967: Pierre-Louis Gabriel Falaize: 1967: 1969 ...
The Bank of Syria and Lebanon, from 1919 to 1924 Banque de Syrie, from 1924 to 1939 Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban, then Banque de Syrie et du Liban (BSL) from 1939 to 1963, was a French bank that was carved out from the Imperial Ottoman Bank following World War I and granted a central banking role in what would become Syria and Lebanon under French mandate and in the early years of the two ...