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De Lesseps was similarly not deterred by the opinions entertained, in France as well as in England, that the sea in front of Port Said was full of mud which would obstruct the entrance to the canal, and that the sands from the desert would fill the trenches — no adverse argument could dishearten Lesseps.
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De Lesseps had used his friendly relationship with Sa ' id, which he had developed while he was a French diplomat during the 1830s.
De Lesseps therefore tried to increase revenues by interpreting the kind of net ton referred to in the second concession ( tonneau de capacité ) as meaning a ship's real freight capacity and not only the theoretical net tonnage of the Moorsom System introduced in Britain by the Merchant Shipping Act in 1854.
* Ferdinand De Lesseps
* A somewhat more accurate version of the lavolta can be seen in the movie Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ), this time with Joseph Fiennes playing William Shakespeare and Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola De Lesseps.
De Lesseps was also entrusted by his father with missions to Marshal Count Clausel, general-in-chief of the army of occupation in Algeria.
De Lesseps then retired from the diplomatic service, and never again occupied any public office.
De Lesseps statue now stands in Port Fouad shipyard
De Lesseps succeeded in rousing the patriotism of the French and obtaining by their subscriptions more than half of the capital of two hundred million francs which he needed in order to form a company, but could not attract any substantial capital contribution from the public in England or other foreign countries.
De Lesseps steadily endeavored to keep out of politics.
De Lesseps accepted the presidency of the French committee of Leopold II of Belgium's International African Society.
De Lesseps was appointed President of the Panama Canal Company, despite the fact that he had reached the age of 74.
De Lesseps then went to Washington, met with President Rutherford Hayes, and testified to the House Interoceanic Canal Committee.
De Lesseps went with his youngest child to Panama to see the planned pathway.
De Lesseps was ordered to pay a fine and serve a prison sentence, but the latter was overturned by the Cour de Cassation on the grounds that it had been more than three years since the crime was committed.
De Lesseps died at Château de La Chesnaye in Guilly, Vatan, Indre, on 7 December 1894.
* Fort De Lesseps named in his honor
* Fort De Lesseps – located in Colon
Fort De Lesseps was a small U. S. Army Coast Artillery Corps fort located at the northern tip of the city.
* map of Fort De Lesseps
* Ferdinand De Lesseps, ( 1855 – 7 December 1894 )
Founded in 1928 as a subsidiary of de Havilland Aircraft ( UK ) de Havilland Canada was first located at De Lesseps Field in Toronto, before moving to Downsview in 1929.
* Suez: De Lesseps ' Canal ( 1968 )
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At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.
In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.
Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;
Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;
Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??
Monsieur De Cury was incensed, of course.
Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.
Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.
The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).
Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.
A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.
A member of the IRSAC staff ( E. Van De Walle ) was recently delegated to cooperate with AIMO in the development of demographic statistics in this territory.
Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.
De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.
Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.
A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.
the twelfth Marquis De Portago was intelligent, purposeful, and passionate.
The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.
It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.
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