Félix Paul Jacques Herbé (15 July 1898 – 7 March 1993) was a French

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and

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. Born in

Reims Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne. Founded by ...

, he was the older brother of Paul Herbé. The two siblings partnered with Robert Camelot to form a study that operated between 1933 and 1941. They made significant contributions to the city of

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, with varying degrees of success. The School for Young Girls they designed still stands and has been registered as a

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, while their 1938 outdoor auditorium was demolished in 1954 by the mayor who had commissioned it, in large part due to poor acoustics. Jacques Herbé occasionally contributed to his brother's burgeoning international career, and co-designed the Pavillon de la manufacture de Sèvre for the

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. The partnership was broken up by the outbreak of

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, after which Paul Herbé moved on to tackle international projects at

Bernard Zehrfuss Bernard Louis Zehrfuss (Angers, 20 October 1911 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 3 July 1996) was a French architect. Life He was born at Angers, into a family that had fled from the Alsace in 1870 after the Franco-Prussian War. Zehrfuss's father was ki ...

' Paris agency. Jacques Herbé remained based in Reims. Among his most visible works were two of the area's sporting venues: a new building at the historic Tennis Club de Reims, which replaced the original built by Édouard Redont and destroyed during the war, and the

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, co-designed with

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and Roger Dhuit.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Herbe, Jacques Architects from Reims 1898 births 1993 deaths 20th-century French architects