The United States bought out the assets of the Company and resumed work under a revised plan
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Ferdinand de Lesseps
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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Born 19 November 1805 · Died 7 December 1894 · Q209169
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1894· 1 entry
Died 1894-12-07.
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1884· 2 entries
Of seven more British directors, chosen from among shipping merchants and business men, increased, for the benefit of all concerned, the commercial character of the enterprise
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Career landmark: seat 38 of the Académie française (1884–1894).
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1881· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1881).
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1880· 1 entry
That the project would take 658 million francs and eight years to complete
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1876· 1 entry
Awarded Marcelin Guérin Prize (1876).
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1873· 1 entry
Became interested in a project for uniting Europe and Asia by a railway to Mumbai, with a branch to Beijing
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1870· 2 entries
Won Albert Medal (1870).
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Awarded Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (1870).
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1869· 2 entries
Joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas, substantially reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia
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Appeared to deviate from this principle by being a candidate at Marseille for the Corps Législatif, it was because he yielded to the entreaties of the Imperial government in order to strengthen its goodwill for the Su
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1856· 1 entry
By the civil engineers constituting the International Commission for the piercing of the isthmus of Suez
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1854· 2 entries
The accession to the viceroyalty of Egypt of Said Pasha gave Lesseps a new impulse to act upon the creation of a Suez Canal
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Lesseps made inquiries with a former, if short-term, acquaintance and successor in Egypt, Said Pasha
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1853· 1 entry
Lost his wife and his son Ferdinand Victor at a few days' interval
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1849· 1 entry
The government of the French Republic sent Lesseps to Rome to negotiate the return of Pope Pius IX to the Vatican
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1848· 2 entries
At Plaines Wilhems and died on 29 January 1909 at Château de La Chesnay in Guilly, Vatan, Indre
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Career landmark: ambassador of France to Spain (1848–1849).
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1842· 2 entries
Career landmark: Consul General of France in Barcelona (1842–1848).
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Was sent to Barcelona, and soon afterwards promoted to the grade of consul general
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1839· 1 entry
Lesseps was appointed consul at Rotterdam, and in the following year transferred to Málaga, the ancestral home of his mother's family
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1835· 1 entry
Career landmark: Consul General of France in Alexandria (1835–1837).
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1833· 1 entry
Lesseps was sent as consul to Cairo, and soon afterwards given the management of the consulate general at Alexandria, a post that he held until 1837
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1832· 1 entry
Lesseps was appointed vice-consul at Alexandria
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1828· 2 entries
Lesseps was sent as an assistant vice-consul to Tunis, where his father was consul-general
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To Antonia Denois (Paris, 27 September 1802 – Paris, 29 December 1878); and Jules de Lesseps (Pisa, 16 February 1809 – Paris, 10 October 1887), married on 11 March 1874 to Hyacinthe Delarue
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1805· 1 entry
Born 1805-11-19.
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1800· 1 entry
Joined the Egyptian army as commissioner of commercial relations
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