
Adrien Dansette
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LOCATION: Paris, France
Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Paris. Author of Les Affaires de Panama.
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Ferdinand, viscount de Lesseps was a French diplomat famous for building the Suez Canal across the Isthmus of Suez (1859–69) in Egypt. Lesseps was from a family long distinguished in government service. Appointed assistant vice-consul at Lisbon in 1825, he was sent in 1828 to Tunis and in 1832 to…
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