Colette's libretto for Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges is a work of profound insight, argues Margaret Reynolds In the world of opera the librettist often plays second fiddle to the composer. But ...

This French composer and producer-- best known for his lavish arrangements on Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson-- finally has his bizarre and astonishing 1972 solo debut issued on CD in the ...

More than 200 years after famed French architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant chose the spot on which the U.S. Capitol would be built, his likeness will return to Capitol Hill. Ending a 12-year standoff ...

Today's Washington, D.C. owes much of its unique design to Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who came to America from France to fight in the Revolutionary War and rose from obscurity to become a trusted city ...

Weeks after deciding they needed to shelve a long-planned move to the Carnegie Building, owners of the International Spy Museum have narrowed in on L’Enfant Plaza as a future home. The Malrite Co., ...

Peggy Seats and the park she's been working on for 14 years. (Darrow Montgomery) Last Tuesday, Peggy Seats came to Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6D with a simple request: That the appellation ...

Washington, D.C.’s L’Enfant Plaza is headed to the auction block. A large portion of the complex is set to be moved via a foreclosure auction next month, the Washington Business Journal reported. It’s ...

Pierre L'Enfant was a lowly French engineer when he met George Washington at Valley Forge. Washington recruited him to make the design for the nation's new capital city. L'Enfant made the plans, but ...

While the café’s namesake Pierre L’Enfant may have had a major hand in the designing the District, Ball and Lynch have their own designs, marked by a playfulness and passionate creativity. Whether for ...

Today's Washington, D.C. owes much of its unique design to Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who came to America from France to fight in the Revolutionary War and rose from obscurity to become a trusted city ...