Abstract
French society was aware and informed of what happened in the Ottoman Empire during the war. At the end of the conflict, survivors found refuge in orphanages and camps in Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Greece, and other countries of the eastern Mediterranean region. After the war, the Middle East was divided into zones of influence by France and Great Britain. More than 60,000 Armenian refugees were living near Aleppo and more than 20,000 in and around Beirut. There were few Armenians in France, a number of merchants and intellectuals. But the situation changed after World War I and the accompanying Armenian Genocide. An opinion poll of April 1996 showed that 69 percent of the French population was aware of the Armenian Genocide and 75 percent of that group thought that the French government should recognize it officially. This was done in 2001 by a law that states simply: The French Republic publicly recognizes the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
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