This is snapshot I took in Beirut this March. This is the place where Charles De Gaulle, the founder of the French fifth republic and it's first president from 1959-1969, resided when he was in Lebanon.
De Gaulle was in Lebanon during the Mandate period, the 1920's, when he was a high ranking officer in the French army. Those were the days when there was a quasi-Syrian independence movement, and he was there to keep order and control of the French Mandate of Lebanon and Syria.
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