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The Académie nationale de chirurgie (National Academy of Surgery) is a French learned society dedicated to the field of surgery. It is the oldest surgical institution in France having been founded in 1731 as the Académie royale de chirurgie. [1] The current president is Olivier Jardé, a French politician, professor, and orthopaedic trauma ...
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 ...
The Hôtel-Dieu de France is one of the three leading Lebanese hospitals. [1] It is located on Alfred Naccache Boulevard in Beirut , [ 2 ] and is the oldest active French hospital in the city. Hôtel-Dieu , an old French term for hospital, derives its name from its origins as a Catholic institution and translates to "hostel of God."
The French embassy, including the general consulate of France and the cultural and economic services, are today in Espace des Lettres, Damascus Road in Beirut, which was the demarcation line between the Christian and the Muslim neighborhoods during the Lebanese Civil War. The new diplomatic chancellery building was integrated into the numerous ...
The following is a list of ambassadors of France to Lebanon. [1] [2] Start of term End of term Ambassador (or diplomat of highest rank prior to 1953) 1945: 1946:
The French Institute for the Near East (l’Institut Francais du Proche-Orient), Erbil Citadel, Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. The French Institute of the Near East (French: Institut français du Proche-Orient, IFPO) is a research organization in the Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs) portfolio.
Saint Joseph University of Beirut (Arabic: جامعة القديس يوسف في بيروت; French: Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, commonly known as USJ) is a private Catholic research university in Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 1875 by French Jesuit missionaries and subsidized by the Government of France during the time when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule.
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]