#Pierre Charles L&039;Enfant

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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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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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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…