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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Orders from France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World, 1780-1820 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | The French influence on U.S. architecture in the American Republic's formative years, as Kennedy demonstrates, went far beyond the modeling of Williamsburg, Va., on Versailles or the design of Washington, D.C., by Pierre-Charles L'Enfant. |
 | | Enlivened by more than 150 illustrations, this absorbing, pleasantly rambling chronicle tells dozens of stories--of emigre French architects, adventurers, schemers and princes; of slave rebellions, wars, investment schemes, secret diplomacy; and of the American towns, forts, plantations, university campuses, houses and public buildings that bore a French stamp as a result of this cross-cultural interchange. |
 | | Director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and author of Architecture, Men, Women, and Money in America (LJ 3/1/86), Kennedy here traces entertainingly the convoluted relations between the two countries until the onset of the Victorian era, when French influence waned. |
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