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Biografier.

Gaubius, Hieronymus David


Bland arbeten.
Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines.

CODDE, Capt. PIETER, of ENCHUYSEN.





Bland arbeten.
Seehaven ende stads Van Duynkercken 1631. Använd av Blaeu 1634 och Jansonnius.
Även den franska upplagan 1643/44 med titeln 'Pourtraict de la fameuse ville et havre de Duynckercke et places voisines, sables etc. facit par le Capitaine Pierre Codde d'Enschuse.


R.deT. Tooley.

WYLD, JAMES.


Ansedd geograf och kartograf som införde litografikonsten i England.


Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.


Liljeholmens Stearinfabriks Aktiebolag. - 'Sveriges Industri, dess Stormän och Befrämjare' ca 1900.

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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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