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As many people will be aware IOTL Napoleon was a big fan of the construction of the Suez Canal.
However he obviously cut back on funding for surveyors and as a result was told that one side was 10m higher than the other- meaning the canal would need locks and would be really rather expensive.
WI though- the surveying is not so fragmentary and the correct numbers are returned. The construction of such a canal becomes a very popular idea amongst French society and so it accordingly spreads across Europe.
Would Britain or a post-Napoleonic France build the canal decades ahead of time? What impact would come of this?- bare in mind this is in the days before the Indian Empire...