Ferdinand de Lesseps
French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal (1805–1894)
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French diplomat who pulled off the Suez Canal in 1869, cutting shipping routes between Europe and Asia in half. The project made him globally famous, though his later attempt to dig through Panama proved decidedly less triumphant.
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Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps was a French Orientalist diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, which in 1869, joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas, substantially reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia.
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