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Bunau–Varilla, Philippe Jean (–)
Philippe Jean Bunau-Varilla (b. 26 July ; d. 20 May ), French engineer and promoter of the Panama Canal. Philippe Bunau-Varilla was apparently an illegitimate child from a modest Protestant background whose mother managed to send him to the École Polytechnique on a scholarship. He attended the École des Ponts et Chaussés, where he was spellbound by a lecture of Ferdinand Márie de Lesseps. After graduation in , he headed for Panama, fortunately on the same ship as Charles Dingler, the head engineer of the French Panama Canal project. When Bunau-Varilla arrived in Panama, he was assigned to head the engineering section of the Culebra and Pacific division. After the Panama Canal Company went bankrupt in , he helped organize and manage the New Interoceanic Canal Company from to
Bunau-Varilla arranged the sale of the company to the U.S. government in for $40 million and then lobbied and schemed to have the Panamanians revolt so that the U.S. gover
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| Philippe Bunau-Varilla, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Panama, and His Excellency Mr. John Hay, Secretary of State of. | |
| Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla (French: [filip ʒɑ̃ byno vaʁija]; 26 July – 18 May ) was a French engineer and soldier. | |
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- Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla was a French engineer and a key figure in the decision to construct the Panama Canal.
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- Philippe Bunau-Varilla, one of the most extraordinary and extraordinarily effective Frenchmen who ever lived, was born in Paris on July 25, , and died there on May 18, , just as Hitler’s Panzer Corps was smashing across the French border.