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Ch.16 sections 5-7 of Arab Awakening, George Antonius
No you're wrong. Get a copy of that book and read those sections. It even has the letters sent between the Frangieh family and the French commanders discussing this in more detail (and more complicated than the way you are simplifying it to). I wish I had a copy with me to paste them here for you but I read this six years ago cover to cover and I remember distinctly being surprised when seeing Frangieh's name and then reading the letters he sent, asking the French to keep Lebanon only in the mountainous Christian areas to keep the country Christian. They so did not want to include the coast because they feared the country would slip back into Muslim rule and then they would be going back to "Ottoman" days.