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| In Plaza de Francia stands a stark obelisk crowned by a cockerel, a symbol of the French Revolution, commemorating 22,000 workers who perished between 1878 and 1889 during France’s failed attempt to dig the Panama Canal. Pam motions at the bust of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the flamboyant Frenchman who successfully organized construction of the Suez Canal and then, at 75, went on to mastermind the Panama fiasco. |
