 For Louis Georges Érasme de Contades, maréchal de Contades, he rebuilt the château de Montgeoffroy, in Anjou.Underrated by his fellow architects, only one other backed his presenting himself to the Royal Academy of Architecture.Barré in 1772 gave himself over to property speculation in the "Nouvelle France" quartier of Paris, in association with Jean-François Perrin de Cypierre, intendent of the généralité of Orléans.