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2 unusual facts about L'Enfant


L'Enfant

L'Enfant Plaza, a complex of office buildings, a hotel, and an underground shopping mall in Washington, D.C., named after Pierre Charles L'Enfant

Pierre Charles L'Enfant, an architect and civil engineer credited with planning the city of Washington, D.C.


À force de prier

Although "À force de prier" was only a minor international success for Mouskouri, it won her the prestigious Grand Prix du Disque in France that same year, and her Eurovision appearance also caught the attention of noted French composer Michel Legrand, who went on to write and arrange two major hits for her in the francophone markets; "Les parapluies de Cherbourg" (1964) and "L'enfant au tambour" (1965).

Abengourou

The city is home to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Abengourou, with its cathedral at the Cathédrale Sainte Thérèse de l’enfant Jésus.

Catherine Robbe-Grillet

Her last appearance as an actress was on stage in 2006 in Une Belle Enfant Blonde a play based on the writings of Dennis Cooper.

Charles de Cossé, Count of Brissac

The son of René de Cossé, seigneur of Brissac and of Cossé in Anjou, grand fauconnier du Roi, and of his wife Charlotte de Gouffier, he was an enfant d'honneur in the household of the dauphin François, son of King François I.

Dancing in the Rain

The director also participated in the choice of other materials included on the DVD: film trailers, excerpts from Enfant Terrible (1993) - the documentary portrait of Boštjan Hladnik directed by Damjan Kozole, excerpts from the television show Povečava ("Magnification", 1991) directed by Franci Slak, and excerpts from the documentary portrait of the actor Miha Baloh (1998) directed by Slavko Hren.

Joaquim Guedes

Although usually associated with the Paulista School, Guedes was a critic of Oscar Niemeyer and mainstream Brazilian architecture and thus considered an 'enfant terrible' among many of his colleagues.

La Ville dont le prince est un enfant

The Fire that Consumes, a 1977 English language adaptation of the original French play La Ville dont le prince est un enfant;;

Les Rendez-vous de Paris

The three episodes are titled "Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures" (The Rendezvous of 7 hours), in which a student discovers her boyfriend is two-timing her, "Les Bancs de Paris" (The Benches of Paris), in which an unnamed woman has a series of meetings in parks with a handsome literature teacher from the suburbs, and "Mere et enfant 1907" (Mother and Child 1907), which takes its title from a Picasso painting, and centres on an artist who is attracted by a stranger.

Mitsou

She also joined the cast of L’Enfant Prodige, a movie about pianist André Mathieu, in which she played Vivianne Jobin, one of Mathieu's mistresses.

Myra Merritt

She was to appear with that company many times through 1991, including appearances in L'enfant et les sortilèges (as the Fire, directed by John Dexter), the Centennial Gala (the duet from Don Giovanni), La bohème (as Musetta, opposite Plácido Domingo), Les contes d'Hoffmann (as Antonia, conducted by Julius Rudel), Porgy and Bess (as Clara), L'italiana in Algeri (as Elvira) and Don Giovanni (as Zerlina).

National Capital Planning Commission

The major comprehensive plans for the National Capital Region are the L'Enfant Plan and the McMillan Plan.

Nyctalope

# L'Enfant Perdu The Lost Child (1942)(translated into English by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier and included in The Nyctalope Steps In, ISBN 978-1-61227-028-9, Black Coat Press)

Old Patent Office Building

In Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant's plan for the capital city, the site of the Patent Office Building, halfway between the Capitol and the President's House, was set aside for a monumental structure.

Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures

Hamilton commissioned civil engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant, responsible for the layout of the new capital at Washington, D.C. to design the system of canals known as raceways suppylings the power for the watermills in the new town.

The Pastellists

A "striking and important" work was L'enfant a l'orange by Mary Cassatt; Big Wave Design by Arthur Bowen Davies had "vigor and free handling, with the addition of a feeling for great rhythms".


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