Charles Debbas

He was a pupil at the Collège des Jésuites. Having obtained his baccalaureate at fourteen and a half years old, he went to study law in Montpellier then in Paris. The couple began to live in Beirut, Debbas responded in the press that he stood by what he had written and that the wali should submit the matter to court if he thought his article had infringed the law. and married Burgart on 24 October in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Quoting Dib, "to provide balance with the Maronite leadership, between 1926 and 1930, Debbas allowed Bechara al-Khouri and his nemesis Emile Éddé to take turns to act as prime ministers. Eventually, al-Khouri emerged as the stronger leader as he was backed by the Chihas and their millionaire cousins the Faraoun family."

Debbas was re-elected president on 23 March 1929 On 2 January 1934, Debbas delivered a letter of resignation from his presidential functions; he was replaced by Habib Pacha Saad. Debbas became President of the Chamber of Deputies (Speaker) a few days later, and remained in that position until October; he was replaced by Petro Trad.

Death and funeral Debbas sailed to France in April 1935 in order to stay there for six months but died on 22 August of that year, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, 6 rue Piccini. in the presence of Henri Gouraud, A funeral wake was held and Patriarch Alexander III of Antioch gave Debbas absolution the following day in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George. Grand Cross of the Order of the Black Star (1934)