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Moreau-Desproux, Pierre-Louis
(b Paris, 1727; d Paris, 1793). French architect. Having failed to win the Prix de Rome for architecture, he accepted the offer of his more successful friend Charles de Wailly (1730–98) to share the prize. In Rome (1754–6) they were both involved, together with Marie-Joseph Peyre, in the archaeological excavations of the Baths of Diocletian. On his return to Paris, Moreau-Desproux’s first commission was the Hôtel de Chavannes on the Boulevard du Temple (1758–60; destr.); it earned a critical analysis from the Abbé Laugier, who perceived in him a promising exponent of the early phase of a new style. His subsequent private commissions included the Palladian Pavillon Carré de Beaudoin (1770) on the Butte Montmartre and the remodelling of the Hôtel de Luynes (c. 1775; destr.; reassembled stateroom, Paris, Louvre). From 1764 to 1770 he rebuilt the Opéra and its façade (destr. 1781) on the first court of the Palais-Royal.
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