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Purchase of Suez Canal Shares

France · Government / French Third Republic. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1876Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1876

Jules DufaureFebruary 1876

Paris · Government / French Third Republic

French ministers monitor the British purchase while French private shareholders remain the canal company's majority interest.

Names involved

Jules Dufaure

Provenance

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