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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. ↩
Invalidations: the Chamber of Deputies could annul a contested election and order a new poll. ↩
Clément Laurier (1831-1878), lawyer and deputy, Gambetta's right-hand man at the Interior Ministry in 1870, who later moved to the conservative right and backed Mac-Mahon in 1877. He died in Marseille on 20 September 1878 (French Wikipedia, «Clément Laurier»). ↩
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. ↩