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Mathieu Maximilien Prosper de Lesseps (4 March 1771—28 December 1832) was a French diplomat and high ranking public official who served, from 1797 until his death, in numerous foreign and domestic posts.
Mathieu Maximilien Prosper Comte de Lesseps ( Hambourg 4 mars 1774 - Tunis 28 décembre 1832) est un diplomate et haut fonctionnaire français. Biographie. Le 21 mai 1801, il épouse à Malaga Catherine de Grevigné y Gallegos ( 1730 – 1823 ), grand-tante de l’impératrice Eugénie de Montijo. Il est le père de Ferdinand et de Jules de Lesseps .
Mathieu Maximilien Prosper de Lesseps was a French diplomat and high ranking public official who served, from 1797 until his death, in numerous foreign and domestic posts. One of his sons, Ferdinand de Lesseps, was the developer and guiding spirit in charge of the construction of the Suez Canal.
Brother of Ismaël, Comte de Lesseps Did you know? Instead of Ancient Olympia, the torch for the 1952 Winter Olympics was lit in the hearth of a house in Morgedal, Norway.
Ferdinand de Lesseps was born in Versailles, Yvelines, on 19 November 1805. His father, Mathieu de Lesseps was in the consular service while his mother Catherine de Grévigné was the daughter of Henri de Grevigné. He had one sister and two brothers.
While the different camps debated how to achieve the same goal, Ferdinand de Lesseps, a French career diplomat stationed in Egypt in the 1930s and aligned with the Saint-Simonians to some extent, was firm in his belief that a canal cutting through the isthmus of Suez was the only solution.
Mathieu Marie de Lesseps, né le 12 octobre 1870 au domicile de ses parents, 9 rue Richepanse à Paris (8ème arrondissement), était le fils de Ferdinand de Lesseps, 64 ans, ministre plénipotentiaire, président de la Compagnie du Canal de Suez, et de Louise-Hélène Autard de Bragard.
