Barred Jean-Benoit-Vincent

Biography

Jean Benoît Vincent Barré learned architecture in the cabinet from Antoine Matthieu Carpentier, which transmitted part of its customers to him. He worked for very fortunate silent partners, giving sumptuous and elegant buildings, perfectly with the last style. Its career remains however rather badly known.

He worked for the financial ones like Laurent Grimod of Reynière, of which he built celebrates it Parisian hotel, Jean-Joseph de Laborde or the father-in-law of this last, Mathias de Nettine, banker of the court of Austria. Via this last, it gave the plans of the royal place and the church Saint-Jacques-to-Coudenberg to Brussels, and built the hotel of the minister of France in this city.

Named in 1770 inspector of the buildings of the Powders and Salpetres of the King, it built his most known work, the Château of the Marsh (1772 - 1779) for Jean the Master of Martinière, general treasurer of artillery and the genious. For the marshal of Contades, it rebuilt the Château of Montgeoffroy, in Anjou.

Little considered by its fellow-members, it obtained only one vote when it was presented to the royal Académie of architecture.

Barred starting from 1772 was devoted in real estate speculations in the district of the Nouvelle France to Paris, in partnership with Jean-François Perrin de Cypierre, intendant of the general information of Orleans. He speculated then with Antoine Roy, which was to build an enormous fortune and to become Minister for Finance under the Restauration, after having married in 1793 the girl of Barred, Adelaide-Sophie.

In 1797, Barré was withdrawn in its property of Chesnaye with Seine-Port where he died very old in 1824.

Principal achievements

Castle of Hénonville (Oise), between Pontoise and Beauvais, rebuilt for Jean-Marie Roslin d' Ivry, 1765 - 1771.
Castle of Montgeoffroy (Maine-et-Loire), 1772 - 1775, rebuilt for the marshal Louis Georges Érasme de Contades.
Castle of the Marsh (the Essonne), chief of work of the syle Louis XVI, 1772 - 1779.
Grimod Hotel of Reynière , angle of the Which occurred Gabriel and the Street Boissy d' Anglas, Paris, for Laurent Grimod of Reynière, 1775 (destroyed).
Castle of Lude (the Sarthe), 1785, for the marchioness of Vieuville: Barred an important work campaign realizes while removing before court, substituent with the western main building the current gantry and building the wing of style Louis XVI. In the east, it masks the turns by side houses whose roofs are higher than that of the central house, crowned of a flattened pediment. The pace somewhat archaïsante of this frontage makes it possible to avoid a rupture too marked with the parts of the 17th century.
Castle and park of Méréville (the Essonne), starting from 1784: For the financier Jean-Joseph de Laborde, Barré carries out interior decorations and, especially, several of the famous factories of the park (some in collaboration with the painter Hubert Robert): cenotaph of Cook, column rostrale, temple of the Filial devotion, Gothic turn, ruined bridge.
Hotel Micault d' Harvelay , district of the roadway of Antin, Paris, for Joseph Micault d' Harvelay, brother-in-law of Jean-Joseph de Laborde (destroyed).
Hotel of Aubeterre , district of the roadway of Antin, Paris (destroyed).
Hotel of Cypierre , 26 Street of Suburb-Poissonnière, Paris, for Jean-François Perrin de Cypierre (destroyed).
Hotel Barred , 24 Rue of Suburb-Poissonnière, Paris, for itself.
Hotel of Lalive , street of Artois
House of Mr Girault , boulevard of the Roadway of Antin
Hotel of Laborde , boulevard of the Italians
Transformation of the castle of Chevilly (Loiret), for Jean-François Perrin de Cypierre.

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