Charles Corm The Levant and Near East: A Multidisciplinary Book Series Series Editor: Franck Salameh The Levant and Near East series publishes works reflecting the region’s hybridity and offers new perspectives on an area in permanent transformation. This series studies the NearEastfromabroad,diverse,inclusive,andcross-multi-disciplinarypurview,withthe aimofbringingintofocusitslargerconceptual,geographic,social,linguistic,andcultural settings.Inlinewithitscommitmenttothis“ecumenical”approach,TheLevantandNear East series is designed to present clearly, accurately, comprehensively, and objectively researchinavarietyofNearEasternstudiessub-fieldsanddisciplines—examiningnarra- tives,histories,cultures, ideas, and intellectual traditions often overlookedintraditional scholarship, with the purpose of appealing to both experts and general audiences. The series’ objective is, therefore, to deal with the Levant and the Mediterranean from the perspectiveofMiddleEasternstudies,culturalandintellectualhistory,politicalscience, religion,philology,anthropology,linguistics,literature,securitystudies,womenstudies, andotherdisciplinesofthehumanitiesandsocialscience,withtheaimofadvancingan inclusive, deep understanding of the Near East, and casting a broad look at the region beyondsoothingfamiliarsettingsandprevalentdominantmodels. TitlesintheSeries CharlesCorm:AnIntellectualBiographyofaTwentieth-CenturyLebanese“Young Phoenician,”FranckSalameh Charles Corm An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese “Young Phoenician” Franck Salameh LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2015byLexingtonBooks Coverimage:CharlesCormattheageof17,duringhisfirstvisittoNewYork(ca.1912). ThisistheadolescentCharlesCormwhoconvincedHenryFordthathewasthe“right man”tobetheexclusiveagentofFordMotorproductsintheLevant.CharlesCorm’s ArchivesandPrivatePapers,Beirut,Lebanon. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Salameh,Franck,1962- CharlesCorm:anintellectualbiographyofatwentieth-centuryLebanese"youngPhoenician"/ FranckSalameh. pagescm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-7391-8400-4(cloth:alk.paper)--ISBN978-0-7391-8401-1(electronic) 1.Corm,Charles,1894-1963.2.Authors,Lebanese--20thcentury--Biography.3.Authors,French-- 20thcentury--Biography.4.Intellectuals--Lebanon--Biography.5.Philanthropists--Lebanon--Biog- raphy.6.Businesspeople--Lebanon--Biography.I.Title. PQ3979.C6Z862015 848'.91209--dc23 [B] 2015012037 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Tomywife,Pascale; Tomychildren, Zoé,Chloé,andTristan: MaytheLebanonofCharlesCorm’syearningsonedaybecometheir reality. Quandreverrai-jehélas,demonpetitvillageFumerlacheminéeeten quellesaisonReverrai-jeleclosdemapauvremaisonQuim’estune provinceetbeaucoupd’avantage? JoachimDuBellay(1522–1560)