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Charles L'Enfant

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Noun1.Charles L'Enfant - United States architect (born in France) who laid out the city plan for Washington (1754-1825)Charles L'Enfant - United States architect (born in France) who laid out the city plan for Washington (1754-1825)
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles L'Enfant
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after the well-known contribution of Peter Charles L'Enfant, and covers the topics of the Jefferson-Latrobe collaboration, David d'Angers's busts of Washington and Lafayette in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building, Francophilia among government officers and the Washington elite, interpreting the influence of Paris on the planning of the capitol, 1870-1930, and architects and the French connection in Washington, D.
Paris on the Potomac; the French influence on the architecture and ... by Reference & Research Book News
That's thanks to Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French planner who gave the city Parisian-style boulevards and spacious public areas.
Travel: US CITYBREAKS - Wash & brush-up; MARK ELLIS SPIES THE SECRETS ... by The Mirror (London, England)
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, whom George Washington commissioned to design the capital in 1791, envisioned the Mall as a "place of general resort" that would be "attractive to the learned and afford diversion to the idle" L'Enfant had in mind the great places of France: the parks and avenues of Paris, the stately precincts of Versailles.
Monumental failure: why we should commercialize the National Mall by Green, Joshua / Washington Monthly
 
 
 
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