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    Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant (French: [pjɛʁ ʃɑʁl lɑ̃fɑ̃]; August 2, 1754 – June 14, 1825) was a French-American 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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  • 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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  • 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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    named 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...
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    Major 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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    father of Pierre Charles, who designed the urban plan for Washington, D.C. L'Enfant was born in Anet on August 26, 1704. After studying under Charles Parrocel...
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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...
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    District to about the size of the national mall. Designed in 1791 by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the city is divided into quadrants, which are centered around...
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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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    "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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    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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    commandant in 1796. Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Rochefontaine replaced Pierre Charles L'Enfant as chief engineer at Fort Mifflin in 1798 and completed the citadel...
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  • Wiesel (introduced in the House on 04/28/2017) Statue depicting Pierre Charles L'Enfant provided by the District of Columbia (introduced in the House on...
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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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    district that includes part of it. Massachusetts Avenue was part of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's original plan for the development of Washington, D.C. The avenue...
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    Logan (December 30–31, 1886) William McKinley (September 17, 1901) Pierre Charles L'Enfant (April 28, 1909) reinterment George Dewey (January 20, 1917) Unknown...
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    owner 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...
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    major feature of Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the newly established federal city of Washington, D.C. After L'Enfant's dismissal in early...
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    such as Avenue D. The idea for such a system was developed by Pierre Charles L’Enfant, who devised the system for Washington. The numbered street system...
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    lots 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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    and of Pierre Charles L'Enfant has likewise failed to reveal mention of Banneker. This conclusively dispels the legend that after L'Enfant's dismissal...
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    city plan of Pierre Charles L'Enfant a century earlier. The Washington, D.C., planners, which included Burnham, Saint-Gaudens, Charles McKim of McKim...
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    1818. Pierre Charles L'Enfant was an engineer, architect and city planner who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. L'Enfant designed...
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  • Duverger, jurist Gustave Eiffel, engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant, city planner responsible for Washington, D.C. Charles-Michel de l'Épée, founder of world's...
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  • astronomic 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...
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    Carl Ahasver von Sinner, Bernese architect (died 1821) 9 August – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born American architect (died 1825) John Webb, English...
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    Washington chose Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant to plan the new city. Although unnamed at the time, Pennsylvania Avenue was designed in the L'Enfant plan as a...
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    and west). In 1791, the first plan for the park was drawn up by Pierre Charles L'Enfant. The Ellipse was known as "the White Lot" due to the whitewashed...
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    States, was planned under French-American architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant. Under the L'Enfant plan, the original District of Columbia was developed...
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