Tag: French mandate
Lebanon / Heritage: the stelae of Nahr el Kalb
Not very far from us, we tend to forget, the famous historic valley of Nahr el Kalb, site now classified by Unesco as "Memory...
Lebanon/History: The Great Druze Revolt and the Battle of Rachaya in 1925
Occupying the Rachaya region in west Bekaa from 1920, French troops, present in accordance with the Mandate established by the League of Nations, had...
61 years ago, Raymond Eddé tried to establish civil marriage
Already in 1959, Raymond Eddé, then Minister of the Interior in the Rachid Karamé government, considered on February 22 a law allowing civil marriage,...