
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.

as Ferdinand de Lesseps

as Linant-Bey, engineer and minister of the Viceroy of Egypt

as Napoléon III

as Mohamed Saïd

as Hélène Bragard

as Cogolin

as Eugénie de Montijo

as Clot-Bey

as Saïd child

as Father Enfantin

as Hoart

as Mimaut

as Mehemet Ali

as Mr. de Bragard

as Lavalley