Abstract
 

In 1936 Syria and France signed a treaty of independence, promising to end the mandate and bring a treaty of "friendship and alliance." The French government failed to ratify the treaty. The mandate in Syria and Lebanon ended, but by war, not treaty, in favor of first French Vichy, and then British, military, occupation. This talk will discuss some recent archival research on the period and its forgotten mysteries. 

Bio
 

Michael Provence is Professor of History at the University of California San Diego.
He is the author of The Last Ottoman Generation and The Great Syrian Revolt. 
He was a visiting professor at AUB in 2005-2006 and has been a long time, and frequent visitor to the OIB since 1999.

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