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	Ferdinand de Lesseps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps (November 19, 1805–December 7, 1894) was a French diplomat and maker of the Suez Canal.
		Ferdinand de Lesseps was born at Versailles in 1805.
		In 1832 Ferdinand de Lesseps was appointed vice-consul at Alexandria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_de_Lesseps (1800 words)

	Ferdinand de Lesseps
		Ferdinand de Lesseps was also entrusted by his father with missions to Marshal Count Clausel, general-in-chief of the army of occupation in Algeria.
		Following his interpretation of the instructions he had received, de Lesseps began negotiations with the existing government at Rome, according to which Pope Pius IX should peacefully re-enter the Vatican and the independence of the Romans be assured at the same time.
		De Lesseps was a member of the French Academy, of the Academy of Sciences, of numerous scientific societies, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and of the Star of India, and had received the freedom of the City of London.
	www.nndb.com /people/720/000028636 (2261 words)

	BBC - History - Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805 - 1894)
		De Lesseps persuaded all in the Egyptian government that a sea-level canal should be built, and his canal project fired the imagination of French, Italian, Austrian, Egyptian, Russian and American investors, but not that of the British.
		De Lesseps persevered despite all this, and eventually attracted finance from the French emperor to build his canal, despite the hostility of the British government and an absence of British investors.
		A French court found de Lesseps, and his son Charles, guilty of this charge, and both were fined heavily and sentenced to lengthy imprisonment.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/lesseps_ferdinand_de.shtml (837 words)

	DeLesseps - His Great Scheme
		De Lesseps was given control and one of his first steps taken was to purchase a controlling interest in the Panama Railroad Company which involved the changing hands of about $18,000,000.
		De Lesseps went to the United States immediately after his first visit to the Isthmus, and made a tour of all the principal cities in the interest of the undertaking.
		De Lesseps essayed to stem the tide of opposition sentiment and in 1885 applied to the French Government for permission to establish a lottery branch by which he hoped through the issuance of bonds, to provide funds for carrying on the work.
	www.czbrats.com /MiNombre/Paniguana/delesseps.htm (5943 words)

	Panama Canal History - French Canal Construction
		De Lesseps then decided that another ceremony should inaugurate the section of the canal that would have the deepest excavation, the cut through the Continental Divide at Culebra.
		As de Lesseps was a trained diplomat and not an engineer, a fact that he should perhaps have more often remembered during canal design decisions, his son Charles took on the task of supervising the daily work.
		De Lesseps was aware that the railroad was important to the work, and control of this vital element was gained by the French in August 1881.
	www.pancanal.com /eng/history/history/french.html (5153 words)

	French boys clothes: De Lesseps family
		De Lesseps at age 19, having studied law, was appointed eleve??-counsel to his uncle, then the French ambassador to Lisbon.
		De Lesseps had two marriages, one as a young man and a second as an older man. All together he had 17 children and countless grand children.
		De Lesseps was chosen president of the French company that worked on the Panama Canal from 1881-88, because of his stunning success with the Suez Canal.
	histclo.com /bio/a/co-frandel.html (1773 words)

	Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie, vicomte de - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LESSEPS, FERDINAND MARIE, VICOMTE DE [Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie, vicomte de], 1805-94, French diplomat and engineer.
		Lesseps was brought to trial for misappropriation of funds and, together with his son, was sentenced to prison by the French government.
		The sentence, however, was not carried out, and most objective observers, then and since, have held Lesseps to have been guilty only of negligence.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lesseps.html (286 words)

	Sciences & technologies - Ferdinand de Lesseps, un relieur de mers -Ministère des Affaires étrangères-
		Ferdinand de Lesseps est en effet le brillant inventeur du fameux canal de Suez.
		Ferdinand de Lesseps a ainsi dû conduire l’eau du Nil dans cet isthme désertique pour alimenter les chantiers, mais aussi faire sortir du néant Port-Saïd afin d’accueillir le matériel en provenance de l’Europe, puis d’abriter les navires transitant dans le canal.
		Les membres de l’Association du souvenir de Ferdinand de Lesseps et du canal de Suez, qui y a son siège, se sont en effet donné pour mission d’en perpétuer la mémoire.
	www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /fr/france_829/label-france_5343/les-numeros-label-france_5570/label-france-no60_11476/sciences-technologies_11500/index.html (891 words)

	The Panama Railroad Travelogues:Ferdinand de Lesseps crosses the Isthmus
		A fuss was made over the safety of the de Lesseps children, who greatly enjoyed every moment of the experience, and then two or three of the Americans, after appraising the problem, decided to risk the crossing another day.
		Among them were the president-elect of the province, Demaso Cervera, and a former president, Rafael Aizpuru, "a disreputable revolutionist," de Lesseps was told.
		De Lesseps could count on Panama to provide nothing but the place to dig the canal.
	www.trainweb.org /panama/delesseps.html (2385 words)

	A Moment in Time: Ferdinand de Lesseps - I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lead: Born in the heady days of Napoleon's Empire Ferdinand vicomte de Lesseps was for many the symbol of French ingenuity and enterprise.
		Content: Lesseps hailed from a family with a history of long and distinguished government service, mostly diplomatic, and after education in Paris and military service he was posted as a minor representative to Portugal in 1825.
		With his once promising career in tatters and a huge family to support, Lesseps was especially pleased in 1854 to receive the invitation of his old friend Sa'id Pasha, who had succeeded his father as viceroy of Egypt, to come to Alexandria to discuss the possibility of breaching the Suez with a canal.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=1846 (411 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2002034209
		Lesseps, a French diplomat who worshiped at the altar of progress; Muhammad Said, the Egyptian viceroy who saw in France and England all that his country could be but wasn't; and Ismail, his successor, who tried to purchase a better future for Egypt using European loans.
		A vision of progress energized Lesseps, a vision that East and West could be joined, and that the union of the two seas and the two worlds would allow the energies of mankind to flourish as never before.
		Lesseps was not the first person to seize someone else's idea, but he was surely one of the most successful at it.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random045/2002034209.html (2539 words)

	Egypt - Memory of the Suez Canal
		The Association of the Friends of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Company of Suez and the Suez Canal Authority are the most important sources.
		Founded in 1855 for the construction and running of the Suez Canal, according to the concession approved to Ferdinand de Lesseps, the C.U.C.M.S. reoriented its activities when the Canal was nationalized by Egypt in 1956.
		de Lesseps, Napoleon III, Empress Eugénie, Khedive Ismaïl Pasha) and in the 20
	www.unesco.org /webworld/nominations/en/egypt/egypt.htm (1443 words)

	Panama Canal Museum, History of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Panamacanal
		With the new Viceroy Mohammed Said in Egypt, whom de Lesseps had befriended years ago, he rushed to Cairo and soon the construction of the Suez Canal under his command began.
		De Lesseps became a hero presented with many decorations.
		On the first day of the new year of 1880, on board a steam launch standing of the mouth of the Rio Grande, de Lesseps young daughter Fernanda dug the first shovel of sand into a champagebox and the Panama Canal was symbolically begun.
	www.canalmuseum.com /stories/history_of_panama_003.htm (614 words)

	Amazon.com: Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal: Books: Zachary Karabell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Long gone, Karabell notes, is a statue of de Lesseps that overlooked his creation; vanished, too, is the dreamy romanticism invested in all things Egyptian by French artistic and progressive thought in the first half of the 1800s.
		Although de Lesseps was fascinated with the exotic, Karabell appraises him as a salesman who viewed the canal as a way to etch his name in history.
		Because de Lesseps' personal connections to potentates were crucial to his success, Karabell amplifies his story with figures from the worlds of diplomacy, finance, and French and Egyptian societies.
	www.amazon.com /Parting-Desert-Creation-Suez-Canal/dp/0375408835 (2314 words)

	The American Experience/TR's Legacy/Panama
		Ferdinand de Lesseps,builder of the Suez Canal, led the project.
		Ample evidence supported de Lesseps' claims; the tiny cross-Panama railway had made in excess of $7,000,000 in the first six years of operation.
		De Lesseps, who visited Panama once-during the dry season-had disregarded the warnings of men who knew Panama intimately.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tr/panama.html (1660 words)

	WILLIAM W. WRIGHT COLLECTION: FOLDER LISTING
		Re Ferdinand de Lesseps' progress on surveys for the Panama canal route and loss of public interest in the Nicaragua route.
		Re annual dinner of the Cobden Club, London, at which Ferdinand De Lesseps stated "The Panama Canal scheme is a perfect success," and that he had received both French and US financial support.
		@ Lesseps and the Panama Canal (N.Y. Tribune, 2/25/1880).
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f178}1.htm (3006 words)

	LESSEPS, FERDINAND DE ... - Online Information article about LESSEPS, FERDINAND DE ... (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ferdinand de Lesseps was also entrusted by his father with See also:
		Ferdinand de Lesseps steadily endeavoured to keep out of politics.
		Smith, The Life and Enterprises of Ferdinand de Lesseps (London, 1893) ; and Souvenirs de guarante ans, by Ferdinand de Lesseps (trans.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org.cob-web.org:8888 /LEO_LOB/LESSEPS_FERDINAND_DE_1805_1894_.html (3571 words)

	Suez (1938 b 98') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ferdinand envisions a canal and asks the Turkish viceroy Muhammad Ali (Maurice Moscovitch) for the land; but Cameron says that England opposes a French canal.
		Ferdinand learns that Arabs stole explosives; their sabotage kills many, but Sa'id finds it was Turks.
		De Lesseps' diplomatic career was ruined by a controversy in Italy, not as portrayed in this film.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1938/Suez.html (437 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Features \| Reclaiming history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And so it was Jean-Paul Calon, president of the Friends of Ferdinand De Lesseps Association, who finally gave me the definitive grand tour.
		Ferdinand De Lesseps arrived to Cairo in 1854 and soon convinced Khedive Saeed of the importance of digging the Canal.
		The contemporary history of the documents we had come to Alexandria to celebrate, however, really began with the establishment of the Friends of Ferdinand De Lesseps Association and a young lawyer employed by the Suez Canal Company.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/579/fe1.htm (1134 words)

	Jacques de Lesseps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As an aside, I have been told he was the grandson of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal.
		- "Fears for the safety of Count Jacques de Lesseps, veteran airman, missing with his machanic since they took off on a survey flight Tuesday, were increased tonight with the finding of parts of his hydroplane in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
		The main portion of Lessep's plane was found on the beach at St. Felicits last night.
	www.earlyaviators.com /edelesse.htm (1064 words)

	The International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Count Ferdinand de Lesseps was without a doubt, one of the greatest transportation entrepreneurs that ever lived.
		Lesseps headed the new "Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique," and began construction in 1879.
		Two other important canal-related securities from the late 19th century are on display: The Societe Generale du Canal Maritime de Corinthe which financed the Corinthian Canal, and The Malay Peninsula Exploration Syndicate Limited which financed efforts to cut a waterway across the Malaysian Peninsula.
	icf.som.yale.edu /research/historical_securities/hs4.shtml (298 words)

	TIME.com: Bachelor's Children -- Dec. 12, 1938 -- Page 1
		When Ferdinand de Lesseps set out to build the Suez Canal in 1859 he was a dignified widower of 54, who had had five sons by his first wife.
		Of the 17* de Lesseps offspring seven were still alive last week.
		When it was over, despite the implied reflection on themselves and their parentage, the de Lesseps were not shocked enough to bring suit, suggested a few minor changes.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,760481,00.html (460 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Son of Ferdinand de Lesseps, promoter of the Suez and Panama canals, the Frenchman Jacques de Lesseps (1885-1927) is considered one of aviation's pioneers.
		In December, the pilot's body was recovered from the water near Newfoundland and interred in Gaspé according to his wishes.
		In 1932, a monument by sculptor Henri Hébert honouring de Lesseps and his co-pilot was unveiled during a ceremony presided by Mgr F.-X. Ross, first bishop of Gaspé [http://www.ville.gaspe.qc.ca/english/members/monument_lesseps.html]
	lafayette.150m.com /les6767.html (338 words)

	MTV Movies \| Suez \| Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After his father is appointed French consul to Egypt, the younger de Lesseps travels there and conceives the idea of a canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas.
		The elder de Lesseps dies of shock at the political betrayal, while the younger de Lesseps starts building the canal, overcoming attacks by tribal people and severe heat.
		A sandstorm injures de Lesseps, and his French-Egyptian lover Toni (Annabella) straps him to a post to save him, sacrificing her own life for the canal.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/75586/plot.jhtml (481 words)

	De Lesseps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ferdinand De Lesseps (1805-94) was a French diploma and engineer who formulated plans for the Suez Canal and carried them to a successful conclusion.
		He also directed the French company which failed in the attempt to construct the Panama Canal.
		De Lesseps was a tug owned by the Panama Canal Company who loaned her in 1918 to the Navy for temporary use by the Commandant, 15th Naval District.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/d2/de_lesseps.htm (84 words)

	de lesseps statue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The colossal statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps by Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-11/09/1910) was installed at entrance of the Suez Canal at Port Saiid on 17 November 1899 and forcibly removed with TNT on 23 December 1956.
		Friends of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the statue now stands in a small garden of the Port Fouad shipyard awaiting its belated reunification with its original pedestal.
		Other works by Frémiet include a statue of Jeanne d'Arc at Place des Pyramides, Paris and an equestrian statue of Emperor Napoleon overlooking Lake Laffrey 30 Km south of Grenoble.
	www.egy.com /landmarks/lesseps.shtml (106 words)

	The Frank Coffyn Collection : Count Jacques de Lesseps
		Son of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez canal.
		Born in 1885, died in 1927, De Lesseps was the second man to fly the English Channel and the first man to fly over Montreal.
		He seems to have been quite friendly with the Wright team and won a significant prize at the International Aviation Tournament in Belmont Park, New York, 1910.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /coffyn/php/entity_a109.html (72 words)

	The Suez Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1832, French engineer Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps was traveling on the Mediterranean Sea.
		In 1869 the Suez Canal was completed, It was constructed following the design by and under the leadership of Lesseps.
		It was during that quarantine thirty-seven years earlier that the plan for the Suez Canal was germinated and conceived by Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps.
	www.sermonillustrator.org /illustrator/sermon1a/suez.htm (272 words)

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