French Lebanese

French Lebanese
Français du Liban, Franco-Libanais

Total population
21,428 (2011)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Beirut (Greater Beirut), Tripoli
Languages
Arabic, French, English
Related ethnic groups
French, Lebanese

French Lebanese are the French citizens (about 21,000 persons) living in Lebanon, including many binationals and persons from mixed ancestry. There are neither official statistics or any scientific information regarding their spoken languages and supposed religious affiliations.

Political representation

For the elections at the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad, Lebanon is part of the Beirut electoral district, including also Syria, Iraq and Jordan, where there are small French communities. The three representatives elected on 18 June 2006 (4,156 votes in total, 3,787 in Lebanon) are all members of right-wing groups in the Assembly: Jean-Louis Mainguy (born in 1953 in Beirut, Union of Democrats, Independents and Liberals), Denise Revers-Haddad (born in 1940 in Varennes-Jarcy, Rally of French Citizens Abroad) and Marcel Laugel (born in 1931 in Algiers, then French Algeria, Union of Democrats, Independents and Liberals).^[2]

For the June 2012 French legislative election, Lebanon is part of a large constituency for French residents overseas, the tenth, including Central, Eastern and Southern Africa and much of the Middle East. On December 31, 2011 there were 21,428 registered French electors in Lebanon out of 147,997 for the whole constituency.^[3] Out of 11 candidates presently known, only two are - at least partially - living in Lebanon, none from the two main parties.^[4]

French Lebanese in France

At the French National Assembly, there were two French Lebanese deputies for the 2007-2012 mandate, Henri Jibrayel (member of the Socialist Party) and Élie Aboud (born in Beirut in 1959, member of the Union for a Popular Movement). In the 2007-2012 Union for a Popular Movement governments, there was a French Lebanese member, Éric Besson, whose mother is Lebanese.

See also

• Count of Tripoli
• French Mandate of Syria and the Lebanon
• Lebanon
• France
• French Empire
• France–Lebanon relations
• French diaspora
• Lebanese people in France
• Levantines (Latin Christians)
• French language in Lebanon

References

French diaspora Africa Algeria Madagascar Mauritius Namibia (Afrikaners) Seychelles South Africa (Afrikaners) Asia India Israel Japan Korea Lebanon Pakistan United Arab Emirates Europe Netherlands (Huguenots) United Kingdom (Huguenots) North America Canada Acadians Québécois Breton Cuba Guatemala Haiti Jamaica Mexico Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis United States Cajuns French Canadians Huguenots Breton Corsican Basque Oceania Australia New Caledonia New Zealand South America Argentina Brazil Chile Peru Uruguay See also Basques Bretons Walloons Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico Migration of minorities in France (i.e. Basques) can be considered as separate (ethnically) or French migration (by nationality).

Demographics of Lebanon Lebanese people by religion Muslim Shia Sunni Druze1 Christian Maronite Eastern Orthodox Melkite Protestant Other non-Lebanese groups Armenians Australians Bulgarians Canadians French Greeks Italians Jews Poles Russians Foreign nationals Assyrians Indians Iranians Iraqis Kurds Pakistanis Palestinians Sri Lankans Syrians Turks 1 Under the terms of the Lebanese Constitution the Druze community is designated as a part of the Lebanese Muslim community.