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Lesseps, Ferdinand de
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French diplomatist, born at Versailles; conceived the scheme of connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean in 1854, and saw it finished as the Suez Canal in 1869; projected a similar scheme for a canal at Panama, but it ended in failure, disgrace, and ruin to the projectors as well as others (1805-1894).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Lesseps, Ferdinand de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/lesseps-ferdinand-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Lesseps, Ferdinand de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/lesseps-ferdinand-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
