Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles l'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C. by Scott W. Berg

Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles l'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.

Scott W. Berg

336 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L'Enfant--a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers--to design t...

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