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.
6 Episodes
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Linant-Bey, engineer and minister of the Viceroy of Egypt
Napoléon III
Mohamed Saïd
Hélène Bragard
Cogolin
Eugénie de Montijo
Clot-Bey
Saïd child
Father Enfantin
Hoart
Mimaut