The papers of Hans Paul Caemmerer (1922-1954) are deposited in the National Archives and include considerable correspondence concerning this book about Pierre Charles LEnfant (1754-1825). It was Caemmerer who dispelled the belief that LEnfant was an engineer, and found that he studied in the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture under his own father, an accomplished oil painter. LEnfants big opportunity was to fill a blank canvas, physically...
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