FERDINAND

DE, 5. 1895, d. a great French engineer, who desicacd et tho construction of the nal, 1859-69. His scheme for g@ a canal acro the Isthmus of ma led to a financial collapse, for de Le eps, being held to be partly sible, was condemned in his old age rm of a hea which, however, ot carried into effect. SING, [s. 196]