 He gave oversight of the construction of the new "Théâtre-Français" (today the Théâtre de l'Odéon) to Charles De Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre.He directed construction of the "Place Louis XV (today the Place de la Concorde), the planting of the gardens of the Champs-Élysées, and supervised construction of the École Militaire.He gave numerous commissions to François Boucher, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, Jean-Baptiste Pierre and named Charles-Joseph Natoire as director of the Académie de France à Rome.