Oeuvre de ferdinand de lesseps biography

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          1 The story of the Suez Canal Company was identified intimately to Ferdinand de Lesseps, its conceiver and creator, as has been the case for most of the.

        1. 1 The story of the Suez Canal Company was identified intimately to Ferdinand de Lesseps, its conceiver and creator, as has been the case for most of the.
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        3. Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE.
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          Ferdinand De Lesseps
          1805-1894

                If, as Dante sings: "There is no greater grief than in a time of misery to remember happier days," there are few persons in our time who can testify more feelingly to the truth of the poet's words than Ferdinand de Lesseps.

          For many years he was a bright-shining, sympathetic figure among those who lead in the van of our material progress; and the accomplishment, by his initiative and energy, of the long dream of the Suez Canal, made him the hero, not of his own nation alone, but of all the civilized world; honors were heaped upon him, and acclamations greeted him on every side.

          His name became a household word.

                A few years later, and all is changed. At the advanced age of eighty-eight, Ferdinand de Lesseps i