• diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps. In 1910 he married Grace Mackenzie, daughter of Sir Willam Mackenzie. In 1910, Jacques de Lesseps became the second person...
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    Angevin Empire. One of his great-grandfathers, Pierre de Lesseps (1690–1759), son of Bertrand Lesseps (1649–1708) and wife (m.1675) Louise Fisson (1654–1690)...
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  • Look up Lesseps or de Lesseps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. De Lesseps, Lesseps, or variation, may refer to: Alexandre de Lesseps (born 1949), French...
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  • The grassy airfield was later used by French aviator Count Jacques Benjamin de Lesseps (1883–1927) and later renamed after him. The property remained...
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    miniseries The Edwardians. Louis Bleriot on 25 July 1909 and Count Jacques de Lesseps on 21 May 1910 crossed West-bound before him "Mr. Rolls is the tenth...
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    ruled that he had started late. The $10,000 prize later went to Count Jacques de Lesseps not Grahame-White, because the latter had fouled during the race....
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  • approximately $75,000 in prize money. Participants included Count Jacques de Lesseps, Roland Garros, Claude Grahame-White, Glenn Curtiss, John Moisant...
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    in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. It is a reproduction of the Blériot XI "Le Scarabée", flown over Montreal by Count Jacques de Lesseps in 1910, built...
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    taking bribes from Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1888 to permit the stock issue, leading to a corruption trial against Lesseps and his son Charles. Meanwhile...
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  • flight, with French ace Count Jacques de Lesseps circling the city. Trethewey Airfield, later renamed De Lesseps Field, hosted de Havilland's facilities and...
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  • drama, de Lesseps reveals she's trying to have a baby with her boyfriend when the ladies suspect she partied much later with Td Jacques. De Lesseps finds...
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    Post's likeness on the front bore the description of French aviator Jacques de Lesseps on the back. Other cards featured the image of another French aviator...
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    won. Only three pilots flew in the race, Grahame-White, Moisant and Jacques de Lesseps. In March 1911 (five months after the contest) the Board of Governors...
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  • the other ladies. LuAnn de Lesseps continues to enjoy her relationship with her wine exporter boyfriend, Jacques. De Lesseps feels a trip away will do...
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    £131,700 Henri Farman 1910 Second cross-channel flight 100 £12,900 Jacques de Lesseps 1910 1910 Best cross-country aggregate 1,000 £128,900 Louis Paulhan...
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    African sea route, Lesseps made several trips to Britain between 1854 and 1858 to persuade Palmerston and the British public. Lesseps also had to fight...
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    Canadian women to fly; Mackenzie soon married her pilot, Count Jacques de Lesseps. De Lesseps Field near Toronto was named for the French aviator. Aviation...
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  • between Ferdinand de Lesseps and his friend Vicomte Rene de Latour, the enthusiastic admiration of Countess Eugenie de Montijo for de Lesseps attracts the...
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    Award winner best known for Patton; in Wise, Virginia (d. 1999) Died: Jacques de Lesseps, 44, French aviator and World War I hero, along with his flight engineer...
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  • (Paul de Lesseps) Monoplan de Lesseps de Lloyd Thompson Looper ((Henri) DeLotty Flying School: de Lotty Aircraftsmen Co, San Francisco, CA) de Lotty 1929...
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  • energy." De Lesseps remained a part of the drama through the series and season six continued to document de Lesseps' relationship with Jacques that later...
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  • de Trévise Baron de Barante Adolphe Le Flô Christophe de Lamoricière Duc de Montebello Antoine Chanzy Joseph Noulens 1792-1812 Barthélemy de Lesseps 1801-1804...
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    hosted Canada's first aviation competition, attracting noted aviators Jacques de Lesseps, who used the park to build and repair airplanes, and Louis Blériot...
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    the British were establishing in New South Wales, Australia. Barthélemy de Lesseps, son of the French vice consul at Kronstadt, Russia, who had joined the...
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  • interested, but was able to discuss his ideas with the French consul de Lesseps, with Linant de Bellefonds, a high ranking engineer in the Egyptian public works...
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    explorer who found the remains of one of Lapérouse's ships; and Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal and nephew of the sole survivor of Lapérouse's...
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  • contact with French Surrealists. While sharing an art studio on the Plaça de Lesseps with Francés, Varo began creating her first artworks after graduating...
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    became a nun; Jules Adolphe Edouard Ouvrard de Cabarrus, Doctor Cabarrus (1801-1870), married Adélaïde de Lesseps (1803-1879); Clarisse Thérésa Ouvrard (1802-1877)...
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    construction of the Suez Canal (number 2 in the company after director Ferdinand de Lesseps). François Philippe Voisin was educated at the École Polytechnique. After...
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  • as his first student. During 1921, he accepted the sons of Ferdinand de Lesseps as students and in 1922 two more students: Jules Boucher and Gaston Sauvage...
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