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Town sign in Standard Arabic and French at the entrance of Rechmaya, Lebanon. French is a common language in Lebanon, with about 40% of the population being Francophone. [1] A law determines the cases in which the French language is to be used within government, [2] and is often used as a prestige language for business, diplomacy and education.
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 State of Greater Lebanon (Arabic: دولة لبنان الكبير, romanized: Dawlat Lubnān al-Kabīr; French: État du Grand Liban), informally known as French Lebanon, was a state declared on 1 September 1920, which became the Lebanese Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية اللبنانية, romanized: al-Jumhūriyyah al-Lubnāniyyah; French: République libanaise) in May 1926, and is ...
Lebanon's sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East nation out of its worst crisis ...
Of Lebanon's 34 radio stations, 11 have either French or English names. [33] Using photographs from 2015, a 2018 study of the linguistic landscape of Lebanon's capital, Beirut , found that the Arabic script is only used in 20% of storefront's primary text (store's name) and 9% of secondary text (other information, such as opening hours).
In a new bid to break the deadlock, French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about Lebanon. French diplomats say ...
Barrot, who heads to Lebanon at the end of the week, said Paris had worked with th. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -France and the United States are working to hammer out a 21-day temporary ceasefire ...
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 ...