1955 RARE MEDAL F DE LESSEPS SUEZ CANAL EGYPT 59mm

Description: France, 1955 " FERDINAND DE LESSEPS ", 59mm Bronze, 120grs approx 4oz commemorating the 150 Years anniversary of the Birth of de Lesseps, by Baron, in excellent condition as scanned, rim nicks, edge marked bronze with triangle (Private mint). Obv. Right profile of the Ferdinand de Lesseps Rev. Composition of the artist, hands opening the canal and revealing a liner. ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps (November 19, 1805December 7, 1894) was a French diplomat and maker of the Suez Canal; he was born at Versailles. His attempt to repeat this success during the 1880's with an effort to build a lockless version of the Panama Canal failed. The origin of his family has been traced back as far as the end of the 14th century. His ancestors, it is believed, came from Scotland, and settled at Bayonne when that region was occupied by the English. One of his great-grandfathers was town clerk and at the same time secretary to Queen Anne of Neuberg, widow of Charles II of Spain, exiled to Bayonne after the accession of Philip V. From the middle of the 18th century the ancestors of Ferdinand de Lesseps followed the diplomatic career, and he himself occupied with real distinction several posts in the same calling from 1825 to 1849. His uncle was ennobled by King Louis XVI, and his father was made a count by Napoleon I. His father, Mathieu de Lesseps (1774-1832), was in the consular service; his mother, Catherine de Grvgne, was Spanish, and aunt of the countess of Montijo, mother of the empress Eugnie. His first years were spent in Italy, where his father was occupied with his consular duties. He was educated at the College of Henry IV in Paris. From the age of 18 years to 20 he was employed in the commissary department of the army. From 1825 to 1827 he acted as assistant viceconsul at Lisbon, where his uncle, Barthlemy de Lesseps, was the French charg d'affaires. This uncle was an old companion of La Prouse and a survivor of the expedition in which that navigator perished The modern Suez Canal More than a thousand years elapsed before the next attempt was made to dig a canal. At the end of the 18th century, Napoleon Bonaparte, while in Egypt, contemplated the construction of a canal to join the Mediterranean and Red Seas. His project was abandoned,

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