
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.

Guy Marchand
Ferdinand de Lesseps

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

Armand Mestral
Napoléon III

Ricardo Palacios
Mohamed Saïd

Sophie Renoir
Hélène Bragard

Guy Verda
Cogolin

Maria Rosaria Omaggio
Eugénie de Montijo

Michel Beaune
Clot-Bey