[4] Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), who loved the cedars and also had visited Lebanon in 1935, wrote in his work Citadel "[t]he peace is a long growing tree.

[5] In 1920, in a text of the proclamation of the State of Greater Lebanon, it was said: "[a]n evergreen cedar is like a young nation despite a cruel past.

The two red stripes refer to the Lebanese blood shed to preserve the country against the successive invaders.

[6] The 1913 version of the flag was created by two Lebanese Brazilian journalists, Shukri El Khoury and Naoum Labaki, who were both part of the Mahjar movement in the Americas.

[7] An alternate version was also made in 1918 by El Khoury inspired by the French tricolor flag.

It featured red and blue triangular on the left of the white cedar flag which was done to honor the French mandate.

The Administrative Council and Lebanese municipalities flew the plain white cedar flag in protest.

However demonstrators in Baabda unanimously demand, among other things: “The affirmation of the union of Lebanon with France, consecrated by the choice, as a national emblem, of the tricolor flag with the Cedar in a white band”.