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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.
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1984-06-07
S1E6 — Episode 6
Billed Cast
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
Hugo Alarcon
Saïd child
Bernard Cara
Father Enfantin
Michel Ruhl
Hoart
Gabriel Cattand
Mimaut
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