L'Enfant
Noun
Meaning
United States architect (born in France) who laid out the city plan for Washington (1754-1825)
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Examples
I liked Truffaut a lot, I've felt a lot of admiration for his way to address the audience, and his storytelling.... La nuit américaine is adorable, and another film I like to see is L'enfant sauvage, with its fine humanism.
Murray, p. 316 The second opera, also in one act, is L'enfant et les sortilèges (1926), a "fantaisie lyrique" to a libretto by Colette.
For 2013–15 Operabase records eight productions around the world of L'heure espagnole and twenty-four of L'enfant et les sortilèges.
Williams, 2005, p. 120; Moeller and Weeks, 2006, p. 59. Pei's associate Araldo Cossutta was the lead architect for the plaza's North Building (955 L'Enfant Plaza SW) and South Building (490 L'Enfant Plaza SW).
L'Enfant identified himself as "Peter Charles L'Enfant" during most of his life, while residing in the United States.
Pei wanted the open spaces and buildings of L'Enfant Plaza to be "functionally and visually related" to one another.