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(EGYPT). LESSEPS FERDINAND DE. Conferences de la Rue de la Paix Entretiens sur le Canal de Suez. FIRST EDITION. Upper cover inscribed. pp. 95. Original printed wrappers. Foxed. 8vo. Paris Napoleon Chaix, 1864 Ferdinand Marie, Comte de Lesseps (1805-94) was a French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, which in 1869 joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas, substantially reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia.