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    Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant (French: [pjɛʁ ʃɑʁl lɑ̃fɑ̃]; August 2, 1754 – June 14, 1825) was an American-French artist, professor, and military engineer...
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    The L'Enfant Plan for the city of Washington is the urban plan developed in 1791 by Major Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant for George Washington, the first...
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  • his death in 866. Charles the Child was the second son of Charles the Bald and brother of Louis the Stammerer. The younger Charles was appointed by his...
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    Pierre Charles L'Enfant included it in his plans for Washington, the Federal City, as a significant site for the capital defense. On L'Enfant's orders...
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    Peter Charles L'Enfant." The National Park Service identifies L'Enfant as "Major Peter Charles L'Enfant" and as "Major Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant" on...
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    United States Capitol (category Charles Bulfinch buildings)
    Peter Charles L'Enfant." The National Park Service identifies L'Enfant as "Major Peter Charles L'Enfant" and as "Major Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant" on...
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    the use of L'Enfant's birth name, "Pierre Charles L'Enfant". The National Park Service identifies L'Enfant as "Major Peter Charles L'Enfant" and as "Major...
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    "Peter Charles L'Enfant". The web page nevertheless identifies the author as "Pierre-Charles L'Enfant." L'Enfant identified himself as "Peter Charles L'Enfant"...
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  • L'Enfant may refer to: L'Enfant (film), a 2005 Belgian film L'Enfant (poster), a noted 1987 photographic poster Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and...
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    for Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, the architect and planner who first designed a street layout for the capital city (see L'Enfant Plan). It was dedicated...
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  • A statue of Pierre Charles L'Enfant represents Washington, D.C., in the U.S. Capitol Building. L'Enfant was a French-American military engineer who designed...
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    "Peter Charles L'Enfant". The web page nevertheless identifies the author as "Pierre-Charles L'Enfant." L'Enfant identified himself as "Peter Charles L'Enfant"...
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    but was not adopted by the U.S. Senate. Designed in 1791 by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the city is divided into quadrants, which are centered around the...
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    Company in 1785 to improve navigation on the Potomac. Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, designing a master plan for the development of the capital city, provided...
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    popularized the use of L'Enfant's birth name, "Pierre Charles L'Enfant". (See: Bowling, Kenneth R (2002). Peter Charles L'Enfant: vision, honor, and male...
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    refurbishments of existing structures, buildings and public spaces. Pierre Charles L'Enfant in Washington, D.C., Daniel Burnham in Chicago, Lúcio Costa in Brasília...
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    a historic district that includes part of it. Appearing in Peter Charles L'Enfant's original plan, Massachusetts Avenue crosses three of Washington's...
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    at the Point, including for defensive works. In 1791, he and Pierre Charles L'Enfant chose the site for the emplacement of a redoubt of some sort. They...
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  • layout in the new City of Washington was designed by Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant. As a planned city, Washington was modeled in the Baroque style and...
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    the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in...
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    Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant had placed in his 1791 plan for the future federal capital city (see L'Enfant Plan). Instead of L'Enfant's "Grand Avenue...
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    Florida Avenue was one of the original streets in Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's plan for Washington. A five-mile segment north of Rock Creek was built...
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    was pictured in the image, and which itself is named after Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the designer of much of the layout of Washington, D.C. Theorists claimed...
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  • longitude there is about 4 arc seconds less than NAD83. Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant specified the first meridian in his 1791 "Plan of the city intended...
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    (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's 1791 "Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of the United States ... " (see L'Enfant Plan), Andrew...
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    and was opened on May 31, 1973, as the Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, named after Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first surveyor and designer of the street...
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    U.S., Jean Jules Jusserand, popularized the use of L'Enfant's birth name, "Pierre Charles L'Enfant". Pennsylvania Avenue once provided an unobstructed...
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    drawn by one "Peter Charles L'Enfant" (sic). When George Washington chose to dismiss L'Enfant, it was Ellicott who revised L'Enfant's plan and completed...
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  • II – astronomer, city planner, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 1791 Peter Charles L'Enfant and Andrew Ellicott – Washington, D.C. 1805 Augustus B. Woodward –...
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    sincere ideals of liberty and republicanism, volunteers such as Pierre Charles L'Enfant joined the American army. The most famous was Lafayette, a charming...
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