High Commissioners of Syria and Lebanon were the highest ranking authority representing
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
in the french mandated countries of
SyriaThe French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate created after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire...
and
LebanonThe French Mandate of Lebanon was a League of Nations Mandate created at the end of World War I. When the Ottoman Empire was formally split up by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, it was decided that four of its territories in the Middle East should be League of Nations mandates temporarily governed by...
. They were based in
BeirutBeirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon with a population of over 2.1 million as of 2007. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's coastline with the Mediterranean sea, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan Area, which...
, Lebanon. After 1941 they were renamed to General Delegates.
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High Commissioners of Syria and Lebanon were the highest ranking authority representing
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
in the french mandated countries of
SyriaThe French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate created after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire...
and
LebanonThe French Mandate of Lebanon was a League of Nations Mandate created at the end of World War I. When the Ottoman Empire was formally split up by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, it was decided that four of its territories in the Middle East should be League of Nations mandates temporarily governed by...
. They were based in
BeirutBeirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon with a population of over 2.1 million as of 2007. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's coastline with the Mediterranean sea, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan Area, which...
, Lebanon. After 1941 they were renamed to General Delegates.
List of French High Commissioners of Syria and Lebanon
- Henri Gouraud (9 October 1919 - 19 April 1923)
- Maxime Weygand
Maxime Weygand was a French military commander in World War I and World War II. Weygand is remembered for initially fighting the German invasion of France in 1940, then surrendering to and collaborating with the Germans as part of the Vichy France regime.-Early years:Weygand was born in Brussels...
(19 April 1923 - 29 November 1924)
- Maurice Sarrail
Maurice-Paul-Emmanuel Sarrail was a French general of the First World War. Sarrail endeared himself to the political elite of the Third Republic through his openly socialist views, all the more conspicuous in contrast to the Catholics, conservatives and monarchists who dominated the French Army...
(29 November 1924 - 23 December 1925)
- Henry de Jouvenel (23 December 1925 - 23 June 1926)
- Auguste Henri Ponsot (August
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1926 - July 1933)
- Damien de Martel (16 July 1933 - January
January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day...
1939)
- Gabriel Puaux (January
January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day...
1939 - NovemberNovember is the 11th month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. November retained its name when January and February were added to the Roman calendar....
1940)
- Jean Chiappe
Jean Chiappe was a high-ranking French civil servant.Chiappe was director of the Sûreté générale in the 1920s. He was subsequently given the post of Préfet de police in the 1930s, in which role he was very popular. His politics tended towards the right, and successive governments tried in vain to...
(did not take office) (24 November 1940 - 27 November 1940)
- Henri Dentz
Henri Fernand Dentz was an officer in the French Army and, after France surrendered during World War II, he served with the Vichy French Army.-Syria-Lebanon campaign:...
(6 December 1940 - 14 June 1941)
List of French General Delegates of Syria and Lebanon
- Georges Catroux
Georges Catroux was a French Army general and diplomat who served in both World War I and World War II, and served as Grand Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur from 1954 to 1969....
(also Chief of Free French ForcesThe Free French Forces were French fighters in World War II who decided to continue fighting against Axis forces after the surrender of France and subsequent German occupation.-Definition:...
in LevantThe Levant describes, traditionally, the Eastern Mediterranean at large, but can be used as a geographical term that denotes a large area in Western Asia formed by the lands bordering the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, roughly bounded on the north by the Taurus Mountains, on the south by...
states) (24 June 1941 - 7 June 1943)
- Jean Helleu (7 June 1943 - 23 November 1943)
- Yves Chataigneau (23 November 1943 - 23 January 1944)
- Étienne Beynet (23 January 1944 - 1 September 1946)