Philippe Calon: Self (president, Ferdinand de Lesseps association)

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• Narrator : [after the French Canal Company declares bankruptcy]  800,000 shareholders, mostly from the low & middle income range, lose every franc of their investment.

  Philippe Calon : The French reacted strongly. Those who invested reacted strongly. Today still, I know people to whom you cannot mention De Lesseps. They say "My family lost everything in Panama".