The political aspect of monetary policy in the French mandate of the League of Nations in Syria and Lebanon

Introduction. The article explores how the colonial logic of government in the French mandate of the League of Nations in Syria and Lebanon lost its positivity and came into conflict with the international logic of the League’s technocratic rule, especially in the economic and political spheres. The shortage of gold around the world influenced French politics not only in how it crystallized in monetary diplomacy, but also in how it affected the French economy, at the Brussels Conference of 1920. and the Genoa Conference of 1922, but also on the economic difficulties faced by the low level of government on the borders of the French Empire.