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.
Eugénie de Montijo
Linant-Bey, engineer and minister of the Viceroy of Egypt
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Lavalley
Mr. de Bragard
Mehemet Ali
Mimaut
Hoart
Napoléon III
Mohamed Saïd
Hélène Bragard
Clot-Bey
Cogolin
Saïd child
Father Enfantin