Pierre Charles L'Enfant

The original plan for a federal city was approved in 1790, and George Washington picked the site, with French architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant producing a Paris-inspired plan though the final design was not his.

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Inside the Dupont restaurant's entryway is a 5-by-6-foot rendition of a map of the District as first drawn by Pierre Charles L'Enfant in 1791.

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"Pierre Charles L'Enfant didn't design buildings," he says of the man who laid out the new city of Washington in 1791.

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The National Mall was the brain child of French architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant, part of the 1791 plan for Washington, DC to make a grand avenue for the city.

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Pierre Charles L'Enfant was the son of Pierre L'Enfant, an artist who painted battle scenes and also designed tapestries for the Gobelin

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But just outside, the grave of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who designed Washington in 1791-1792, gives a fitting glimpse of his civic masterpiece.

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The plan for our new capital city on the Potomac was designed by a French engineer, Pierre Charles L'Enfant.

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The original plan for a federal city was approved in 1790, and George Washington picked the site, with French architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant producing a Paris-inspired plan though the final design was not his.

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The plan for our new capital city on the Potomac was designed by a French engineer, Pierre Charles L'Enfant.

NYT > Home Page By DAVID McCULLOUGH 2011