The plan to build a large shipping canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea had been around for a long time. But it took a man with the drive of Ferdinand de Lesseps to make it happen.
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Guy Marchand
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Horst Frank
Linant-Bey, engineer and minister of the Viceroy of Egypt
Armand Mestral
Napoléon III
Ricardo Palacios
Mohamed Saïd
Sophie Renoir
Hélène Bragard
Guy Verda
Cogolin