Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (Paris 1727 — Paris 1793) was a pioneering French neoclassical architect. Though he did not gain the Prix de Rome that was...
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philosopher and man of letters Pierre-Louis Moline (1740–1820), prolific French dramatist, poet and librettist Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793), pioneering...
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Greek frieze evoking the style of one of his classmates in Rome, Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux. He built another house for his father in 1761 at 1 rue du...
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The idea was taken up by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux in 1769 and expanded towards the end of the 18th century by Pierre Patte and by Charles De Wailly...
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Noël Neveu 1695 – Louis Galloche 1696 – Pierre Dulin 1697 – Pierre Dulin 1698 – Nicolas de Poilly the Younger (1675—1747) 1699 – Pierre-Jacques Cazes 1700...
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still occupy it. Number 8, was occupied by the royal architect Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux. It was eventually also sold and now houses the Fédération Internationale...
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inspector of public works for the city of Paris, under the architect Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, whose own time at the French Academy in Rome had predisposed...
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Palais-Royal (section Louis d'Orléans)
by fire in 1763, but was rebuilt to the designs of architect Pierre-Louis Moreau Desproux on a site slightly further to the east (where the rue de Valois...
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Haussmann's renovation of Paris (section Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte comes to power, and the rebuilding of Paris begins (1848–1852))
connect the Louvre with the Hôtel de Ville, the new city hall. Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, the architect in chief of Paris, suggested paving and developing...
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Panthéon (called the Eglise Sainte Geneviève) (1756–1780) Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793) Rue St. Honoré facade of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1770)...
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De Wailly, the following year's winner, who brought with him Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, whose sister Peyre eventually married. Peyre stayed in Rome...
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for three years until 1755, sharing his prize with his friend Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux. Both participated in the excavations at the Baths of Diocletian...
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apartment of Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chevreuse and Governor of Paris, was remodeled in 1767 by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux. His boiserie and...
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had its west faced redone by Jean Hardouin-Mansart and then Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, into a neoclassical façade with two orders (1754–78), and was...
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influence of Giambattista Piranesi. Le Geay taught Étienne-Louis Boullée, Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, Marie-Joseph Peyre, and Charles De Wailly, through whom...
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its own architect, Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, who also designed the new facades on the Rue Saint-Honoré side of the building, Louis Philippe engaged...
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from October 1751 to August 1753, at the same time as Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, Pierre-Louis Helin, Marie-Joseph Peyre and Charles De Wailly, and from...
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Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) (redirect from Moreau's opera house)
The new theatre in the Palais-Royal was designed by architect Pierre-Louis Moreau Desproux and was the first purpose-built opera house in Paris. It had...
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Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, Lower Styrian church architect (d. 1804) Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, French neoclassical architect (d. 1793) April 18 – Matthias...
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Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), Paris, designed by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, opened New L'Opéra of the Palace of Versailles, France, designed...
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Haudriettes and rue des Archives, built about 1636, rebuilt 1770. Moreau-Desproux, architect. Fontaine du marché Saint-Martin. In Marché Saint Martin...
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