How a tenacious French diplomat undertook the monumental construction of the Suez Canal
- Posted on August 27, 2026
- By Le Monde
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How a tenacious French diplomat undertook the monumental construction of the Suez Canal
'Suez, a historic canal' (2/6). Efforts to connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea followed one after another from antiquity onward. But it was not until the arrival of Ferdinand de Lesseps – who was neither a scientist nor an engineer – that the project became a reality.
