{
  "id": 3722407,
  "title": "How a tenacious French diplomat undertook the monumental construction of the Suez Canal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/how-a-tenacious-french-diplomat-undertook-the-monumental-construction",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-27T02:00:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/summer-reads/article/2026/08/27/how-a-tenacious-french-diplomat-undertook-the-monumental-construction-of-the-suez-canal_6756892_183.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "'Suez, a historic canal' (2/6). Efforts to connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea followed one after another from antiquity onward. But it was not until the arrival of Ferdinand de Lesseps – who was neither a scientist nor an engineer – that the project became a reality.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}