Grand Avenues The Story of Pierre Charles l'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D. C.

Name: Grand Avenues The Story of Pierre Charles l'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D. C.
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ISBN: 9781400076222

ISBN-10: 1400076226

ISBN-13: 9781400076222

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Authors: Scott W. Berg

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In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L'Enfant--a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers--to design the new nation's capital. L'Enfant approached this task with unparalleled vigor and passion; however, his imperious and unyielding nature also made him many powerful enemies. After eleven months, Washington reluctantly dismissed L'Enfant from the project. Subsequently, the plan for the city was published under another name, and L'Enfant died long before it was rightfully attributed to him. Filled with incredible characters and passionate human…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.95" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



A Note on L'Enfant's English



A Pedestal Waiting for a Superstructure



An Infinity of Small Moments



A Powerful Friend Among the Princes of the Earth



The Remembrance of My Former Services



In Every Respect Advantageously Situated



A Plan Wholly New



The Wheel to Give Motion to the Machine



The Whole Leveled and Thrown to the Ground



Measures of the Most Immediate Moment



An Implicit Conformity to His Will



The Disappointment of Absolute Dues



Getting the Go By



A Share in the Undertaking



The Assurance of Things Hoped For


Epilogue


A Note on Sources


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index