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Ferdinand de Lesseps
Lesseps photographed by Nadar
Born(1805-11-19)19 November 1805
Versailles, First French Empire
Died7 December 1894(1894-12-07) (aged 89)
Guilly, French Republic
CitizenshipFrance
Alma materLycée Henri-IV, Paris
Occupation(s)Diplomat, entrepreneur
Known forSuez Canal, Panama Canal
WorksRecollections of forty years (1887)
AwardsAlbert Medal (1870)
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Ferdinand Marie, Comte de Lesseps GCSI (French: [də lesɛps]; 19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) 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.

He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a Panama Canal at sea level during the 1880s, but the project was devastated by epidemics of malaria and yellow fever in the area, as well as beset by financial problems, and the planned Lesseps Panama Canal was never completed. Eventually, the project was bought out by the United States, which solved the medical problems and changed the design to a non-sea level canal with locks. It was completed in 1914.[1]

  1. ^ McCullough 1977.

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