Ferdinand de Lesseps
Books
- The Canal That Broke a Nation: The French Panama Company, 1879–1893 The French Panama Company, 1879–1893 · Liszt Think
Ferdinand de Lesseps conquered the Suez, but the Panamanian jungle consumed his ambition.
- A Republic Divided by a Canal…s held 136 delegates on the morning of 15 May 1879. Admiral de la Roncire le Noury, president of the congress, called the session to order. Ferdinand de Lesseps sat among the delegates, not as a petitioner but as the man whose successful completion of the Suez Canal a decade earlier had made this as…
- The Engineer Who Measured the Isthmus…the Isthmus of Panama. The congress that had chosen that design — the May 1879 International Congress for an Interoceanic Canal convened by Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Société de Géographie in Paris — had done so without the benefit of such readings. Among the 136 delegates of 26 countries present a…
- The Company Built on a Name…ng enterprise than as a financial instrument organized around one man’s reputation. That origin determined almost everything that followed. Ferdinand de Lesseps was seventy-four years old when the subscription books opened. He had completed the Suez Canal in 1869. That achievement was the company’s…