Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.
with apologies to Ogden Nash...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The opening of the Suez canal, 1869
Dean Server,
The Golden Age of Steam
, Todtri, 1996
This painting by Edouard Roux commemorates the passage of the Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napolean III on
the Imperial yacht
L'Aigle
piloted by Napoléon Coste,
the first ship
through the canal.
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