Word: enfante
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George Washington himself picked the site of the city, not far upriver from his own estate. He appointed a French-born hero of the American Revolution, Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant, to draw up the plans, and L'Enfant, luckily, was a visionary. The major conceived a city of "magnificent vistas" laid out "on such a scale as to leave room for that aggrandizement and embellishment which the increase of wealth of the nation will permit it to pursue to any period, however remote...
...soprano was at her best in modern selections, especially in the Air de Lia. Taken from Debussy's carly cantata L'Enfant Prodigue (for which he won the Prix de Rome), this aria is one of the most taxing in the repertoire. Miss Wheeler managed its wide range with case and made believable, even in a concert setting, the portrait of a bereaved mother's grief...
...Only twelve others have lain in state in the Capitol rotunda: Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, John A. Logan, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Admiral George Dewey, the Unknown Soldier of World War I, Warren G. Harding, General John J. Pershing, and Robert Taft's father...
...Strange Ones. Striking adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfant s Terribles; the story of an adolescent brother & sister living in a world of their own (TIME, July...
Emlyn Williams. Joan Fontaine. 72. The Strange Ones, a cinema adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfant s Terribles, is the tragedy...