President Macron plants cedar tree in Lebanon

GONZALO FUENTES Macron plants a cedar tree, the national symbol, to mark the centenary of the creation of Greater Lebanon by French mandate authorities. https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/macron-in-high-stakes-lebanon-reform-drive/ar-BB18zVYe. In 1920, soon after the end of World War I, the League of Nations mandated that Lebanon would be administered by France after the Partition of the Ottoman Empire. Lebanon became part of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon and administered from Damascus and officially part of the French colonial empire. The French mandate lasted until 1943, when two independent countries emerged, Syria and Lebanon. French troops eventually left Syria and Lebanon in 1946. Shepherds herd sheep in Prevencheres, southern France.