

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.

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Linant-Bey, engineer and minister of the Viceroy of Egypt

Napoléon III

Mohamed Saïd

Hélène Bragard

Cogolin

Eugénie de Montijo

Clot-Bey
Saïd child

Father Enfantin

Hoart

Mimaut

Mehemet Ali

Mr. de Bragard

Lavalley
Merruau

Saint-Hilaire

Théodore

Mougel

Agathe de Lesseps, née Delamalle

Lord Palmerston
Bruce

Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
Fribourg

Duke of Morny
Nubar Pancha
Ismaïl Pacha
Joseph

Hans Treuder

Rudi Treuder

Engineer Borel
Broker
1st broker

2nd broker
Dr. Aubert-Roche
German journalist
Italian journalist

First administrator
Bailiff barker

Dupin

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