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* LENEPVEU. 126 LENOIB. churches, especially Saiiitc Clotilde, Saint Louis en rile, anil Saint Sulpice. L'ENFANT, lii.N'fiix', Pierke Ciiakles (1755- 1825). A French oHicer, who eanie tu Anicriea with Lafayette in 1777, and joined the American army. He was promoted to a captaincy in the engineers in 1771); ^^as severely wounded in the attack on Savannah in the same J'ear; was taken prisoner at Charleston in Jlay, 1780; was exchanged in the following November; and was commissioned brevet major, May 2, 1783. lie designed the badge of the Order of the Cincinnati. He was intrusted with the work of laying out the city of 'ashingt(m. but was removed before all his plans were carried out. In 1812 he declined the professorship of engi- neering at West Point. LENNE, len-na', Peter Joseph (1789-1866). A noted German landscape gardener and archi- tect, son of the famous naturalist best known by the l^atinized name Linnseus. (.See Linn.eus.) After studying the sciences and architecture he went to Paris and Vienna to specialize in garden architecture and arrangement. At Vienna he re- modeled the gardens of the Court, and at Berlin he united beautifully the gardens and parks of Potsdam. He was the architect of the prison at Coblenz, the school of architecture and horticul- ture at Berlin, and the restorer of the residence of Sans-Souci. His fame was so well deserved that his torso was placed in the galleries of SansSouci. LENNEP, len'nep. Jacob VAX (1802-68). A Dutch dramatist and novelist, born in Amster- dam, son of the philologist David .lacob Lennep. Educated for the law. he soon acquired a large practice, writing at the same time poems (1826- 27) and many patriotic novels and plays that won him the title of the Walter Scott of Holland. Of these the first were versificil Ler/ciuls of the Fa- ihcrhtid (1828). followed bv the comedies The Frontier VHIdrie (18.30) and The Village Over the Frontier (18.30), and the novels (among many others) Our Forefathers (1838), The Rose of Delinma. and The Adopted .S'oh, the last two translated (1847). I.ennep also made noteworthy translations into Dutch from Sli;ikes]x>are, Byroii, Southey. and Tennyson, and worked for some years on an uncompleted edition of the great Dutch poet Vondel. Lennep's Dramatic ^]'orh■s are collected in 3 vols. (18.i2n4). his poems in 13 vols. (1850-72), his novels in 23 (1855- 72). His Dc Voornaamste Oesehiedoii.isen van yoord-Xedcrhnd, corresponding to Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, are in four volumes (1845-40). Lennep was also a diligent conlriliutor to, periodi- cals. Consult his Life and a bibliography in Ten Brink. (/V.'!c7nWriii.s der Xoord-Xedcrlandsche Ijet- teren in de XfX. eeuic, vol. i. (Amsterdam, 1888). LENNGREN". len'gren, Anna >Lhia (1755- 1810). A Swedish poet, born probably at Up- r.ala. Her father. JIagnus ilalmstedt, was a professor at the I'niversity of Upsala, and Anna was carefully educated. When she was eighteen her first poem. a])peared and attracted much at- tention. Afterwards .she translated French and Latin plays, which were presented before the Court. In 1870 she married Karl Peter I>enn- gren. one of the editors of the ffloel-holmsposten, and her poems were publislied anonymouslv in this journal for several years. When her iden- tity was discovered, the Swedes hailed their new poet with enthusiasm. She is not profound or imaginative in an original way, but she is always graceful and natural, and her idylls and satires reflect the life slie knew. Her collected poems (Slcaldcforsolc) were first puljlished in 1810, in 1856 with a biographj' by Carlcn, and again with a biographv by Warburg, and illustrations by Larsson (Stockholm, 1884 and 1890, lltli and 12th editions). LENNI LENAPE, len'ne Ic-na'pa. An Al- gonquin tribe. See Delaware. liEN'NOX, Charlotte Ramsay (17201804). An Anglo-American poet, Shakespearean critic, and miscellaneous writer, born in New York. Her father was Lieutenant-tJuvcrnor Ramsay. She was sent to school in England at fifteen; married there; never returned to America; and at the age of twenty-seven attracted attention by a volume of Poems on iieveral Occasions (1747). She was highly esteemed by the novelist Richard- son and by SanuicI Johnson, and on the death of her husband, Henry Lennox, supported herself by miscellaneous writing. Among her works were: ilcmoirs of Harriet Stuart (1751), The Female Quixote (1752). and Henrietta (1758), popular novels; a translation of Sully's Memoirs (1701, reprinted 1854-56) ; a novel, Sophia; two comedies. The Sisters (1769), Old City Manners (1773); Eupltcmia, a novel (1790); and Memoirs of Henry Lennox (1804). Most note- worthy of her works is Shakespeare Illustrated (3 vols., 1753-54). a collection of the novelistic sources of Shakespeare, translated and annotated with the general aim of showing th« inferiority of the dramas to their originals. Dr. .Johnson was thought to have had a hand in this work, for which he wrote the dedication. For an amusing sketch of the work, consult Lounsbury, Shakcs'prarc as a Dramatist (Xew York, 1901). LENNOX, WiLLiA.[ Pitt. Lord (1799-1881). An English soldier and writer, fourth son of the fourth Duke of Richmond, and godson of William Pitt. He was educated at Westminster, and, - having entered the army, ser'ed for several years on the staff of the Duke of Wellington. He was also a voluminous contributor to the Sport- ing Review, Bentley's, and other magazines and newspapers. Ainong his publications, which in- clude works on history and fiction, are: Comp- ton Audley (1841); The Tuft-Hunter (1843); Percy Eamilion (1852); Philip Courtney (1852); Merrie England (1857); Recreations of a Sportsman (1862) ; Adventures of a Man of Family ( lS(i4) ; Drafts on My Memory (1865) ; Fifty Years' liiographical AVMiiniscenccs ( 1S63) ; .1/!/ Recolleel ion's from, tSiHi to ISIS (1873); Life of the Fifth Duke of Richmond (1862). LENNOX, Earl of. See Stewabt. LENOIR, Ir-nwiir'. Alexandre Albert (1801- 91). A French architect, son of Alexandre JIarie Lenoir, the painter and archicologist. He studied at the Coll&ge Bourbon, and was a pupil of Debret in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He lived in Rome (18.30-32), and in 1833 wrote Projet d'un yntisi'e historiqiie, suggesting the union of the Palais des Thermes ancl the Hotel de Cluny. He was appointed architect to carry out this plan; became a member of the committee on historic monuments in the Bureau of Education, secretary of the Eeole des Beaux-Arts for life (1862). and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts ( 1869) . He wrote the very valuable work, In-