GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Ferdinand, viscount de Lesseps, in full Ferdinand-marie, Vicomte De Lesseps, (born Nov. 19, 1805, Versailles, France-died Dec. 7, 1894, La Chenaie, near Guilly), French diplomat famous for building the Suez Canal across the Isthmus of Suez (1859–69) in Egypt.

Detailed explanation-2: -Creator of the Suez Canal. Born in Versailles, into a family raised to the nobility in 1777, son of Mathieu de Lesseps, French Consul, and nephew of Barthélemy de Lesseps, one of the members of the La Pérouse expedition and subsequently French Consul General in St Petersburg during the First Empire.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, a French diplomat, was born Nov. 19, 1805. De Lesseps was deeply involved in two French canal efforts. The first was the Suez Canal project.

Detailed explanation-4: -He organized a company in 1858, with half its capital from French people, and construction began at Port Said in 1859. The Suez Canal was officially inaugurated in 1869. In 1879 Lesseps organized another company to build a Panama canal, but he gave up the project because of political and economic difficulties.