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Pierre Charles L'Enfant

1754 - 1825

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Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant (French: [pjɛʁ ʃɑʁl lɑ̃fɑ̃]; August 2, 1754 – June 14, 1825) was an American-French military engineer who in 1791 designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. His work is known today as the L'Enfant Plan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Charles L'Enfant has received more than 760,619 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 26 in 2019). Pierre Charles L'Enfant is the 179th most popular engineer (down from 160th in 2019), the 3,040th most popular biography from France (down from 2,696th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 179 out of 323Before him are Pierre-Paul Riquet, Alfred Neubauer, Henryk Dembiński, Hugo Eckener, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, and John Smeaton. After him are Walter Hohmann, Michel Chevalier, Gotthilf Hagen, Vladimir Petlyakov, Louis Dollo, and Agustín de Betancourt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 33Before him are Jurij Vega, Alejandro Malaspina, Andrea Appiani, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Nicolas Baudin, and Claude François de Malet. After him are Nikolay Rumyantsev, Franz Xaver von Zach, Louis Claude Richard, Peter Winter, Banastre Tarleton, and Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti. Among people deceased in 1825, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 20Before him are Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Mikhail Miloradovich, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Eli Whitney, Karl Mollweide, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen. After him are Daniel D. Tompkins, Jan Václav Voříšek, Peter Winter, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Utagawa Toyokuni, and Maria Angela Ardinghelli.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 3,040 out of 6,011Before him are Charles Renouvier (1815), Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Robbie Ross (1869), Georges Lefebvre (1874), Julius Leber (1891), and Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768). After him are Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Princess Joséphine of Lorraine (1753), Eugène Isabey (1803), Catulle Mendès (1841), Salomon de Brosse (1571), and Bernard Werber (1961).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Pierre Charles L'Enfant ranks 30Before him are Antoine de Chézy (1718), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Émile Levassor (1843), Arthur Morin (1795), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), and Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609). After him are Michel Chevalier (1806), Louis Dollo (1857), Evgeny Paton (1870), Adolphe Alphand (1817), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), and Pierre-François Bouchard (1771).