Paris on the Potomac Field Gournay Somma Paperback John Wiley & Sons

Paris on the PotomacThe French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C.\nAuthor(s): Cynthia R. Field, Isabelle Gournay, Thomas P. Somma\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821417607, 978-0821417607\nSynopsis\nIn 1910 John Merven Carrre, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, \""Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities.\"" The five essays in Paris on the Potomac explore aspects of this influence on the artistic and architectural environment of Washington, [url] which continued long after the well-known contributions of Peter Charles L'Enfant, the transplanted French military officer who designed the city's plan.\n Isabelle Gournay's introductory essay provides an overview and examines the context and issues involved in three distinct periods of French influence: the classical and Enlightenment principles that prevailed from the 1790s through the 1820s, the Seco.