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Charles de Lesseps as Guest of the United States
A lengthy defense of Charles de Lesseps, detailing his reluctance to join the Panama Canal project, his late father Ferdinand de Lesseps, and the political and legal turmoil of the Suez and Panama ventures. It covers the family’s sacrifice, his jail term in 1892 93, acquittal in 1887, and the impending posthumous restoration of the Legion of Honor by President Poincare amid ongoing public scrutiny.
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Charles de Lesseps
France
Atlantic
Pacific
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Suez
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Suez Canal
Panama Canal
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Poincare
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Charles de Lenseps
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Frederick
Germany
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Sweden
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Hugenne
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Egypt
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Panama Canal Company
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National Order of the Legion of Honor
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Department of Public Works
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Popular Sentment
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Suez Canal Company
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Suez Company
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Panama
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Uring
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Napoleon III
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