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Philippe Bunau-Varilla

Philippe Bunau-Varilla

French engineer
Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla was a French engineer and soldier. With the assistance of American lobbyist and lawyer William Nelson Cromwell, Bunau-Varilla greatly influenced Washington's decision concerning the construction site for the Panama... Wikipedia
Born: July 26, 1859, Paris, France
Died: May 18, 1940 (age 80 years), Paris, France
Books: Panama: The Creation, Destruction, and Resurrection, The Text of a Lecture Before the Commercial Club of Boston, Letter from the Isthmian Canal Commission to the Advisory Board of Engineers Upon Plans for the Panama Canal: Submitting Data. September 1, 1905, and more
Children: Étienne Bunau-Varilla
Partner: Ida de Brunhoff