Histoire du Canal de Suez

Name: Histoire du Canal de Suez
Author: Ferdinand de Lesseps

by Ferdinand de Lesseps

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Project Gutenberg

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Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

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2021-04-17

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Public domain in the USA.

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Suez Canal (Egypt) -- History

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Ferdinand de Lesseps

1805–1894

Best remembered as the driving force behind the Suez Canal, this French diplomat became one of the most celebrated canal builders of the 19th century. His fame later dimmed after the troubled Panama Canal venture, but his impact on global trade and engineering history remains enormous.

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