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/piˈɛr tʃɑrlz lˈɛnfˌɑnt/ Listen

Pierre Charles L'Enfant

noun

United States architect (born in France) who laid out the city plan for Washington (1754-1825). Synonyms: Charles L'Enfant, L'Enfant.

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... corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Fifteenth Street, and stabbed him. Mr. Kennedy was a grandson of Andrew Ellicott, who, his descendants claim, conceived the original plans of the city of Washington instead of Pierre Charles l'Enfant, to whom they ...

— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur

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