L'ENFANT, PIERRE CHARLES

pyĕr shärl läNfäNˈ, 1754–1825, American soldier, engineer, and architect. Born in France, he volunteered as a private in the American Revolution. He won Gen. Washington's attention with his design for the insignia of the Society of the Cincinnati. L'Enfant had remodeled the New York City city hall to serve as a temporary seat of federal government when he was asked (1789) by Washington to submit plans for the capital city at Washington. His plans were presented in 1791, but he antagonized Congress and was opposed by Thomas Jefferson. In 1792 he was dismissed. He was offered in payment of his services 500 guineas and a lot in Washington, which he refused. In 1889, L'Enfant's plans were exhumed from the archives, and in 1901 the design of the capital was developed along the lines that he had laid down. L'Enfant's body was moved to the Arlington National Cemetery in 1909.

See biography by H. L. Caemmerer (1950).

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Pierre Du Ryer, Dramatist
Book by Henry Carrington Lancaster; Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1912
Subjects: Drama, Du Ryer, Pierre--D. 1658
...according to the rulings of Charles IX and Henri III, that he...that shortly thereafter Pierre gave up this title for that...Longueville, daughter of Charles de Bourbon-Soissons and first...well; Bonnet, a nephew of Pierre Motin; E. Poncet, who published...
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General Charles Lee, Traitor or Patriot?
Book by John Richard Alden; Louisiana State University Press, 1951
Subjects: Lee, Charles--1731-1782
...LIKENESS OF LEE IS KNOWN TO EXIST GENERAL CHARLES LEE Traitor or Patriot? By John...devoted to a study of the career of Charles Lee. Four works concerning Lee, by Edward...H. Oldfather, Mr. Harry Ammon, Sir Charles Bunbury, Bart., Sir William Ll. Davies...
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Every Thing in Dickens: Ideas and Subjects Discussed by Charles Dickens in His Complete Works
Book by George Newlin; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Dickens, Charles--1812-1870--Indexes, Dickens, Charles--1812-1870--Quotations, Quotations, English
...26 1848 392 E/PB Pierre Bertrand, play by Frederic...Tresses of the Day Star Charles Knight June 21 1851...Gazette Bertrand, Pierre; drama review E PB 381...a Prison, A; in the Time of Charles the Second MH C 423...
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Seeing through the Mother Goose Tales: Visual Turns in the Writings of Charles Perrault
Book by Philip Lewis; Stanford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Criticism--France--History--17th Century, Perrault, Charles--1628-1703--Criticism And Interpretation
...roles for which Charles Perrault 1628...Gilbert Rouger, Jean-Pierre Collinet, Francois...collaboration between Charles Perrault and his youngest son, Pierre, was ultimately dominated...crucial factor in Charles Perraults long career...seventeenth century in Pierre Cittis collection...
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The Emperor Charles the Fifth
Book by Royall Tyler; George Allen and Unwin, 1956
Subjects: Charles--V--Holy Roman Emperor--1500-1558
...for the last time under our Charles, when it seemed that such a...to pay unwonted tribute. Pierre de St. Julien, Dean of Chalon-sur-Saone...the prayer of a life-time. Charles the Fifth never visited the...feeling and taste endured. St. Pierre in Geneva belongs to a style...
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journal articles on: LEnfant Pierre Charles  - 73 results

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Jean-Pierre Dufreigne: The Text as Unity
Journal article by David J. Bond; Romance Quarterly, Vol. 41, 1994
Subjects: Romance Philology
...article. 2. Michel Braudeau, "LEnfant qui fait mouche," LExpress...Supplique au roi de Norvege, Jean-Pierre Dufreigne ," Le Maga zine...Vie est un jeu denfant, Jean-Pierre Dufreigne ," Le Magazine...Supplique au roi de Norvege, Jean- Pierre Dufreigne ," Le Magazine...
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Des Femmes En Mouvement ..
Journal article by Colette H. Winn; The Romanic Review, Vol. 94, 2003
Subjects: Journet, Charles, Renaissance--Research, Travel in literature--Research, Travel literature--Research
...E. le Cardinal Charles Journet, Solesmes, Abbaye Saint-Pierre, 1971, Lettre...Lorraine, epouse de Charles de Gonzague, duc...54.) Voir Pierre Jourda, Marguerite...Bayonne, voir Pierre Champion, Catherine...Medicis presente a Charles IX son royaume...
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The Genesis of Jewish Swann
Journal article by L. Scott Lerner; The Romanic Review, Vol. 89, 1998
Subjects: Hebrew literature--Literature, Jewish authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Swann, Charles--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...admirant labnegation du Colonel Picquart" (Marcel Proust, "To Pierre dOrleans," Nov. 30, 1899, Correspondance de Marcel Proust. 14...de Pastiches et melanges, et suivi de Essais et articles. Ed. Pierre Clarac. Paris: Gallimard, Pleiade, 1971. --. Correspondance...
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'Volupte': Recit D'un Crime
Journal article by Maureen Jameson; The Romanic Review, Vol. 85, 1994
Subjects: Adultery--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Detective and mystery stories--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Volupte (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...dans la declaration du sexe de lenfant a letat civil." Le medecin...sa soeur (121). (11.)Jean-Pierre Richard, Etudes sur le Romantisme...createur, signale par Jean-Pierre Richard. Le fleuve, a la difference...de ses mains!" (256). Jean-Pierre Richard a certainement raison...
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Baudelaire and Auguste Lacaussade: A New Look
Journal article by James S. Patty; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 32, 2003
Subjects: Artistic influence--History, Baudelaire, Charles, French poetry--History, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History, Lacaussade, Auguste, Literary influence--History
...consulted and admired Pierre Larousses Grand Dictionnaire...Le poete nest pas lenfant gate de la nature.--Son...Charavay in A. de Vigny et Charles Baudelaire candidats...1862 (1861). Larousse, Pierre. Grand Dictionnaire universel...1969. Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin. Nouveaux Lundis...
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Monumental Failure: Why We Should Commercialize the National Mall
Magazine article by Joshua Green; Washington Monthly, Vol. 34, October 2002
Subjects: Washington, D.C.--Description and travel
...the way it was supposed to be. Pierre Charles LEnfant, whom George Washington commissioned...potential--and each has been thwarted. Pierre LEnfant was never able to see his grand...landscape Architects--Daniel Burnham, Charles McKim, and Frederick Law Olmsted...
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A Glimmer of Hope in the Shadow of the Capitol
Magazine article by Mark Gauvreau Judge; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, April 28, 1997
Subjects: Urban renewal--Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.--Politics and government
...Washington was the creation of Pierre-Charles LEnfant, a French engineer. Intending...natives, however, werent happy with LEnfants plan. When families that had donated...farms for the new city saw that LEnfants plans enclosed a thoroughfare...
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WorldFuture 2008; Seeing the Future through New Eyes
Magazine article; The Futurist, Vol. 42, July 2008
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Associations, institutions, etc.--Officials and employees, Organizations--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Organizations--Officials and employees, World Future Society--Conferences, meetings and seminars, World Future Society--Officials and employees
...lovely prospects," urban planner Pierre Charles LEnfant remarked in proposing to George...layout for the new "Federal City." LEnfant called his design "a plan wholly...throughout the District speak to LEnfants prudence as a planner as well...
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Democracy in Three Dimensions? How the Nation's Capital Rose from a Fetid Forest on the Backs of Slaves
Magazine article by Heather Ewing; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Summer 2008
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Books--Criticism and interpretation, Bordewich, Fergus M.--Criticism and interpretation, Bordewich, Fergus M.--Works, Washington: The Making of the American Capital (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works
...the Race to the West and Scott W. Bergs biography of Pierre Charles LEnfant, Grand Avenues--have addressed aspects of this story...Bordewichs story is the ambitious and easily wounded LEnfant, who ended his days in penury, though his grandiose...
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WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future through New Eyes
Magazine article; The Futurist, Vol. 42, March 2008
...lovely prospects" urban planner Pierre Charles LEnfant remarked in proposing to George...layout for the new "Federal City." LEnfant called his design "a plan wholly...throughout the district speak to LEnfants prudence as a planner as well...
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newspaper articles on: LEnfant Pierre Charles  - 25 results

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'Paris on the Potomac' Bridges the Differences; Cultural Series Embraces France's Contributions
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 10, 2005
Subjects: L'Enfant, Pierre Charles
...Franco-American architect Pierre Charles LEnfant, as tres chic. After all...Bowling is the author of "Pierre Charles LEnfant: Vision, Honor and Male Friendship...Agnes Varda retrospective. Pierre Charles LEnfants tomb is at Arlington National...
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City's Design Makes Street Closures Seem Worse
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 12, 2004
Subjects: L'Enfant, Pierre Charles
...opposition. The city plan was designed by Pierre LEnfant, who was selected by George Washington in 1791. LEnfant and his assistant, Benjamin Banneker...anticipating the advent of the automobile, LEnfant designed the avenues broad enough to accommodate...
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George Selected Winner That Became Washington
Newspaper article by Deidra Darsa; The Washington Times, May 28, 1999
Subjects: Washington, George
...rich past. The French engineer Pierre Charles LEnfant, who served with Washington in...the layout for the capital. "LEnfant was raised at Versailles and imitated...executive branches of government, LEnfants plans positioned the "Presidents...
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History under Cover; Steel-and-Glass Roof Detracts from Landmark's Neoclassicism
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 17, 2007
Subjects: Foster, Norman
...19th-century landmark, but one of the citys oldest, most revered public structures. In laying out the capital, Pierre Charles LEnfant allocated this site for a nondenominational church dedicated to American heroes. It was never realized, and instead...
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Catching a Glimpse of 'Hidden Treasure'
Newspaper article by Kevin Chaffee; The Washington Times, October 6, 1997
...manufacturer who once owned part of the land on which the White House now stands and who counted Thomas Jefferson and Pierre Charles LEnfant among his contemporaries. Although the 22-room main house and its three acres of lush gardens and graduated...
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L'Enfant, Pierre Charles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LENFANT, PIERRE CHARLES pyer sharl laNfaN , 1754 1825, American...insignia of the Society of the Cincinnati. LEnfant had remodeled the New York City city...Washington, which he refused. In 1889, LEnfants plans were exhumed from the archives...
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City Planning
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to the plan devised (1791) by Pierre Charles LEnfant , under the supervision of George...commission composed of Burnham, Charles Follen McKim, and Frederick Law...Washington, D.C., adhering to LEnfants original plan as a basis for...
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Capitol , Seat of the U.S. Congress
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...chosen by George Washington in consultation with Major Pierre LEnfant . The building as it now stands took many years to...undertook its restoration. He was succeeded in 1818 by Charles Bulfinch , who brought the design to completion in...


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