Support the First Federal Congress
Project by purchasing:
Peter Charles L’Enfant: Vision, Honor,
and Male Friendship in the Early
By Kenneth Russell Bowling
Published by the Friends of the GW Libraries, October
2002
This
richly-illustrated biography of the French-born American Peter L’Enfant is the
first to look at its subject from the perspective of his times and
contemporaries. It focuses on the years
before and after his famous plan for the city of Washington and on his
relationships with such male friends and patrons as George Washington (whom
L’Enfant made grovel), Alexander Hamilton (whom L’Enfant challenged to a duel),
the Swedish Consul Richard Soderstrom (whom L’ Enfant
lost everything to in a “palimony” suit), and the retired spy Thomas Atwood Digges (in whose home L’Enfant at last found
sanctuary). The book concludes with L’Enfant’s resurrection and reburial at the turn of the
Twentieth Century as a Frenchman name Pierre Charles L’Enfant and with the role
those events played in bringing the
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