Today, the anniversary of 217, on the birth of Ferdinand Delsps, the owner of the Suez Canal project to link the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, on November 19, 1805, a French politician who studied the Red Sea delivery project to the Mediterranean for a long time and tried to persuade Abbas Pasha with him and he refused and tried after that With Saeed Pasha and managed to implement the project.
Delesps was born to an ancient family, who worked more with diplomatic members and became famous for its pro -Napoleon’s positions.
According to the book “The Days of Muhammad Ali: The story of a man previously era: the genius of the will and the history industry” by Dr.
Essam Abdel -Fattah, Napoleon Bonaparte sent Matteo Delispus, Ferdinand’s father, in 1803 as a personal envoy to Egypt, and after a while he became close to the elders of Al -Azhar, especially the scholars of the Diwan who was Napoleon He founded it in Cairo.
The book explained that Matteo Delispus was taken during the period of political vacuum from 1801 to 1805 the special character that distinguishes Albanian officer Muhammad Ali and he approached him before and soon Muhammad took over the rule of Egypt with a popular will, and Napoleon Matteo Delispis summoned and replaced another French is Doroviti and became the actual political advisor And the military and administrative of Muhammad Ali, and the last thing that Matteo Delispus requested from Muhammad Ali before his departure was to take the hand of his son Ferdinand.
According to a number of reports, the first major official Matteo Delispus mission was to work as a French refugee for Morocco, deals, in the year 1800, was sent as a call to the Egyptian army and as a supervisor of trade relations.
In the following years, he was sent as a general refuge to the United States, where he was stationed in Philadelphia on September 16, 1819, then to Syria, where he served in Aleppo as of May 1, 1821, and finally, on August 3, 1827, to the Tunisian capital, Tunisia, where it was He performs his diplomatic duties during the last five and a half years and died, nine weeks before his sixty -second birthday. In the nearby historical city of Carthage..
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