The papers of Hans Paul Caemmerer (1922-1954) are deposited in the
National Archives and include considerable correspondence
concerning this book about Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754-1825). It
was Caemmerer who dispelled the belief that L'Enfant 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. L'Enfant's big opportunity was to fill a blank canvas,
physically and ideologically, of what became the capital. L'Enfant
and pace, Caemmerer's life of him, have been much cited by those
who have caught a fever in terms of Washington as being of occult
design. The need or desire to connect L'Enfant's original drawings
for the city with Freemasonry relies on some still poorly
researched history. Masonic meetings possibly took place in early
Georgetown. Potomac Lodge in Georgetown has the enigmatic
Bladensburg Bible that was published in Edinburgh in 1754. Stories
recorded long afterwards claimed the book was used for pre
Revolutionary Masonic rituals. Since Freemasonry teaches that one
reason for belonging is to enable travel in foreign lands,
Freemasons befriending each other in earliest Georgetown is a
pleasant, but unsubstantiated conjecture.
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