#Pierre Charles L&039;Enfant
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mebwalker · 4 years ago
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Designing Washington, DC: Pierre-Charles L'Enfant
Designing Washington, DC: Pierre-Charles L’Enfant
Balcony beneath “The Apotheosis of Washington,” in the Capitol Rotunda (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Beaumarchais enlists Pierre-Charles L’Enfant Beaumarchais recruits Pierre-Charles L’Enfant: a coincidence L’Enfant does not return to France L’Enfant is initiated into Freemasonry Washington commissions L’Enfant to be build a capital city Thomas Jefferson supervises the building of Washington…
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mebwalkerlove · 11 years ago
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Designing Washington, DC (cont'd)
Designing Washington, DC (cont’d)
  The National Mall was the centerpiece of the McMillan Plan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Pleasure & Reality
As I was writing Designing Washington DC: Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, I looked for a suitable video.
There was a perfectly adequate videos, but the “pleasure principle” took over. The term “pleasure principle” is a term coined by Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) to describe our…
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mebwalker · 11 years ago
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Designing Washington, DC (cont'd)
Designing Washington, DC (cont’d)
  The National Mall was the centerpiece of the McMillan Plan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Pleasure & Reality
As I was writing Designing Washington DC: Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, I looked for a suitable video.
There was a perfectly adequate videos, but the “pleasure principle” took over. The term “pleasure principle” is a term coined by Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) to describe our…
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