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The Real Housewives Of New York City - Current Housewives - LuAnn De Lesseps
... LuAnn de Lesseps, née Nadeau (born May 17, 1965 in Berlin, Connecticut), was born to a concrete manufacturer ... and was the fourth wife of Count Alexandre de Lesseps, a descendant of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the developer of the Suez Canal ... De Lesseps and her husband separated in 2009 ...
Lu Ann De Lesseps
... LuAnn de Lesseps, (born LuAnn Nadeau) known as Countess LuAnn or The Countess is an American television personality, recording artist, and former ... comes from her previous marriage to French nobleman Count Alexandre de Lesseps, a descendant of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the architect of the Suez Canal ...
De Lesseps - Places
... De Lesseps Lake Airport in Ontario, Canada. ...
History Of The Panama Canal - The French Project - Conception
... Ferdinand de Lesseps, who was in charge of the construction of the Suez Canal, was the figurehead of the scheme ... However, de Lesseps, despite his previous success, was not an engineer ... A sea-level canal, as proposed by de Lesseps, would require a prodigious excavation, and through varied hardnesses of rock rather than the easy sand of Suez ...