Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C.

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Contents Preface ix The French Connection in Washington, D.C.: Context and Issues Isabelle Gournay 1 Remembering Paris: The Jefferson-Latrobe Collaboration at the Capitol William C. Allen 36 “The Son by the Side of the Father”: David d’Angers’s Busts of Washington and Lafayette in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Thomas P. Somma 56 Private Homes, Public Lives: Francophilia among Government Officers and the Washington Elite Liana Paredes 77 Interpreting the Influence of Paris on the Planning of Washington, D.C., 1870–1930 Cynthia R. Field 117 Appendix: Architects and the French Connection in Washington, D.C. Isabelle Gournay 139 Contributors 157 Index 159 ...