High Commissioner of the Levant

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The High Commissioner of the Levant ( French Haut-commissaire de France au Levant , Arabic المندوب السامي للإنتداب الفرنسي على سورية ولبنان) was the highest-ranking authority that France represented in the two mandate areas of Syria and Lebanon . He had his seat in the pine residence in Beirut , capital of what was then Greater Lebanon . After the First World War , France received a mandate over the Levant from the League of Nations , which lasted from 1920 to 1946. After 1941 the position of General Delegate to Syria and Lebanon was renamed.

Résidence des Pins ("Pine Residence") with General Gouraud (1920)

List of high commissioners

From To Envoy
October 9, 1919 April 19, 1923 General Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud
April 19, 1923 November 29, 1924 General Maxime Weygand
November 29, 1924 December 23, 1925 General Maurice-Paul-Emmanuel Sarrail
December 23, 1925 June 23, 1926 Henry de Jouvenel
August 1926 July 1933 Auguste Henri Ponsot
July 16, 1933 January 1939 Damien de Martel
January 1939 November 1940 Gabriel Puaux
November 24, 1940 November 27, 1940 Jean Chiappe
December 6, 1940 June 14, 1941 General Henri Dentz

List of General Delegates

From To Envoy
June 24, 1941 June 7, 1943 General Georges Catroux (also head of the French Free Forces in Levant states)
June 7, 1943 November 23, 1943 Jean Helleu
November 23, 1943 January 23, 1944 Yves Chataigneau
January 23, 1944 September 1, 1946 General Étienne Paul Beynet

See also

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Remarks

  1. ↑ His plane was shot down by Italy before he could take over his functions.
  2. ^ Decree of nomination dated June 24, 1941.
  3. ^ Delegated from Free France .