The government accused the dismissed workers of being members of proscribed groups allegedly behind the coup plot led by the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The French President has invited the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his family to go to France, but stressed that he was not offering political exile.
But it had grown strange during its long exile, blind and savage in the darkness to which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse.
Serving as Prime Minister in its first coalition government, he then overthrew the president Sir James Mancham in a coup detat the following year, forcing him into exile.