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Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894) was the French diplomat who organised the construction of the Suez Canal (completed 1869) and at this time was promoting the Panama Canal project. ↩
Cassagnac's elections as deputy for the Gers were repeatedly invalidated by the republican-dominated Chamber of Deputies in 1876 and 1877. Each invalidation triggered a costly new campaign, eventually exhausting the resources of his patroness Mme de la Valette. ↩
Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli (1806–1876) was Secretary of State to Pope Pius IX — one of the most powerful men in the nineteenth-century Catholic Church. ↩