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| | Articles - Ferdinand de Lesseps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) |
 | | To the placing in quarantine of the vessel which took him to Egypt is due the origin of his great conception of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez. |
| | In order to help him to while away the time at the lazaretto, M. Mimaut, consul-general of France at Alexandria, sent him several books, among which was the memoir written upon the Suez Canal, according to Bonaparte´s instructions, by the civil engineer Lapré, one of the scientific members of the French expedition. |
| | In the fictional anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, a class of ZAFT "land battleship" is named after de Lesseps. |
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