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LANGREN [LANGEREN].


Family of Dutch cartographers and globemakers.


Tooley

ELWE, JAN BARNED.

fl. 1785-1809.
Holländsk kartograf i slutet av 1700-talet. Han gav 1792 ut en atlas med 36 kartor, en stor del av dessa var nyutgåvor av äldre kartografers arbeten.

A bookseller and publisher who reproduced a small number of maps copied from his predecessors.


Phillips.

DONCKER, HENDRICK.

Ca. 1664-1721.
Holländsk bokhandlare, son till Hendrick Doncker (se denne).


Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.


Automobil-karta över södra och mellersta Sverige. - Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt 1924.

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L'ENFANT, PIERRE CHARLES.

Biografiska uppgifter:1754-1825.
L'Enfant was born in Paris where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791 President Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capitol city in the District of Columbia. L'Enfant designed a city similar in layout to the then French capitol city of Versailles. The Capitol in Washington sits in a position similar to that of the palace in Versailles, the White House (originally called the President's House) in the position of Grand Trianon, and the Mall is like the Parc. The Commissioners of the City of Washington wanted to have a printed copy of the plan when they began to sell building lots. L'Enfant irritated them by working slowly and releasing only sketchy plans . On instruction from President Washington, Thomas Jefferson on February 27, 1792 wrote a letter to L'Enfant dismissing him as city planner. L'Enfant died penniless and was buried on a friend's estate. In 1909 his remains were moved to Arlington National Cemetery on a hill overlooking the capitol city.



(Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'. )

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