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The Verified Answer for Ferdinand de ___, developer of the Suez Canal is:
- LESSEPS
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Hint 1: Clue Explanation
▼This is just one of those names you know or you don’t, I think, and the Suez Canal was never one of my most fascinating topics. Once I’d gotten the answer on crosses — Ferdinand de LESSEPS — I did a little research, in the hope that there could be some factoid about this guy I’d be glad to know. Turns out that Mr. de Lesseps, after completing the Suez Canal, went to Central America and quite disastrously took a crack at a sea level canal through Panama. This version of the Panama Canal is lost to history, but it was a humanitarian disaster and curiously contained locks designed by Gustave Eiffel, in a last-ditch and failed attempt to complete it. De Lesseps wound up back in France, tainted and sentenced to jail for squandering money and lives in the tropical mud.