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L'Enfant (English: The Child) is a 2005 Belgian film directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Jérémie Renier and Déborah François. The film was released under its French title in the US, and as The Child in the UK. It received critical acclaim and won the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, among other accolades.
L'Enfant was born on August 2, 1754, in the Gobelins section of Paris, France, in the 13th arrondissement on the city's left bank. [4] He was the third child and second son of Pierre L'Enfant (1704–1787), a painter and professor at Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture known for his panoramas of battles, [5] and Marie Charlotte Leullier, the daughter of a French military officer.
The L'Enfant Plan [3] for the city of Washington, D.C. is the urban plan developed in 1791 by Major Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant for George Washington, the first president of the United States. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] It is regarded as a landmark in urban design and has inspired plans for other world capitals such as Brasília , New Delhi , and Canberra .
L'Enfant, a 2005 Belgian film; L'Enfant (poster), a noted 1987 photographic poster; Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and civil engineer credited with planning the city of Washington, D.C. SS Pierre L'Enfant, a 1943 cargo ship; L'Enfant Plaza, a complex of office buildings, a hotel, and an underground shopping mall in Washington, D.C.
Zeckendorf named this mall L'Enfant Plaza after Pierre Charles L'Enfant, [10] an architect responsible for planning the city of Washington. [11] L'Enfant Plaza was approved for construction in April 1955. [12] In December 1959, Zeckendorf won approval to build a 1,000-room hotel and five privately owned office buildings on L'Enfant Plaza. [13]
L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C. in 2011; the glass pyramid, installed in the late 1990s, was removed two years later, in 2013. [1]L'Enfant Plaza is a complex of four commercial buildings grouped around a large plaza in the Southwest section of Washington, D.C., United States.
L'enfant (also known as Man and Baby) [1] is a 1987 photographic poster depicting a shirtless male model (Adam Perry) holding a young baby. The image, conceived by Paul Rodriguez was photographed by Spencer Rowell and published in the 1980s by British company Athena Posters . [ 2 ]
Marie-Aurore-Lucienne Gagnon, [1] simply known as Aurore Gagnon (31 May 1909 – 12 February 1920), was a Canadian girl who was a victim of child abuse.She died of exhaustion and blood poisoning from some 52 wounds inflicted by her stepmother, Marie-Anne Houde, and her father, Télesphore Gagnon.