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Inauguration du Canal de Suez, voyage des souverains / texte par G. Nicole, aquarelles d'après nature et portraits, par Riou, peintre de son Altesse le Khédive, lithographiés par E. Ciceri, G. Janet, Lafosse, Sirouy, Morel-Fatio, J. Didier, Sorieu, F. Benoit, etc., etc.

Gustave Nicole

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Marius Fontane

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... for by the Khedive Ismail, to whom Riou was painter. The second work gives the lion's share of the credit for the Canal to de Lesseps, to whom Fontane, the author, was secretary. Ismail took offence at this and removed the portrait-frontispiece of de...