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French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal (1805–1894)
Also known as: Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps, Ferdinand Vicomte de Lesseps, Фердинанд де Лессепс, فردينان دو ليسبس, 페르디낭 드 레셉스, フェルディナン・ド・レセップス
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- Recollections of forty years (1887)
- Port-Saïd
- Lesseps y los políticos españoles (1993)
- Inquiry into the opinions of the commercial classes of Great Britain on the Suez Ship Canal (1857)
- Origines du Canal de Suez