What is Émile Lahoud?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]] | name = Émile Lahoud<br>{{small|اميل لحود}} | office = [[President of Lebanon]] | honorific-suffix = [[Order of Merit (Lebanon)|OM]] [[National Order of the Cedar|ONC]] | image = Lahoud in Brasil 1 (cropped).jpg | predecessor = [[Elias Hrawi]] | primeminister = [[Rafic Hariri]]<br>[[Selim Hoss]]<br>[[Rafic Hariri]]<br>[[Omar Karami]]<br>[[Najib Mikati]]<br>[[Fouad Siniora]] | successor = [[Fouad Siniora]] {{small|(Acting)}} | party = Independent | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|1|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Baabdat]], [[Greater Lebanon]] | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = [[Britannia Royal Naval College]]<br>[[Naval War College]] | allegiance = {{flag|Lebanon}} | branch = [[Lebanese Navy]]<br>[[Lebanese Army]] | serviceyears = 1956–1980 {{small|(Navy)}}<br>1980–1998 {{small|(Army)}} | rank = [[General]] | commands = [[Commanders of the Lebanese Armed Forces|Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces]] | battles = [[Lebanese Civil War]] | term_start = 24 November 1998 | term_end = 24 November 2007 }} '''Émile Jamil Lahoud''' ({{lang-ar|اميل جميل لحود}}) (born 12 January 1936) is a [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] [[politician]]. He was [[President of Lebanon]] from 1998 to 2007.<ref name=laf>{{cite web|title=Armed Forces Commanders - Emile Lahoud|url=http://www.lebarmy.gov.lb/English/Commander_11.asp|publisher=Lebanese Armed Forces|access-date=13 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712172918/http://www.lebarmy.gov.lb/english/commander_11.asp |archive-date=2007-07-12}}</ref> ==Honours== ===Foreign honours=== * {{Flag|Monaco}} : Grand Cross of the [[Order of Grimaldi]] (13 July 2001)<ref>Nomination by Sovereign Ordonnance [http://www.legimonaco.mc/Dataweb/jourmon.nsf/100ab120e52ceb84c12568ce002f2909/165f4456e9ee8fd8c1256aa10042bba8!OpenDocument n° 14950 of 13 July 2001] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012093528/http://www.legimonaco.mc/Dataweb/jourmon.nsf/100ab120e52ceb84c12568ce002f2909/16