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Lesseps

NOUN
  1. French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)

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  • Played with mercurial Elan by Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare gets unlocked when he meets Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow, sizzling with sensual intelligence), a stage-struck young aristocrat who disguises herself as a boy so she can act in the males-only Elizabethan theater. Close-Up On Will
  • After his death, however, at the age of almost 90, de Lesseps was awarded many great honours.
  • Under the auspices of the government, M. Lesseps commenced a transisthmian canal, which would open communication between the M.diterranean Sea and the A Short History of France
  • Mohammed Said, for whom de Lesseps was to name Port Said, had since become a walleyed mountain of a man, a great eater and drinker and jovial teller of “French stories,” a ruler who liked to have his pashas wade through gunpowder carrying lighted candles to test their nerve. The Path Between the Seas
  • There seems to be no better way to celebrate the reopening of the Daffy's in Manhasset than with a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Countess Luann de Lesseps of the "The Real Housewives of New York City. Landing Royal Deals?
  • After his death, however, at the age of almost 90, de Lesseps was awarded many great honours.
  • It was at an international congress held under the auspices of the Societe the summer of 1875 that de Lesseps made his first public declaration of interest in an interoceanic canal. The Path Between the Seas
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