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Ferdinand de Lesseps

* 1805 in Versailles
+ 1894 in La Chesnaye near Guilly

   

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Ferdinand Marie, vicomte de Lesseps, was a French 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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