Héré was born in Lunéville in Lorraine, where his father was inspector of the chateau. He studied with Germain Boffrand, and from 1736 to 1766 was the chief architect of Stanilaw Leszczynski, the twice deposed king of Poland who had received the duchys of Bar and Lorraine in the Treaty of Vienna in 1737/1738. (extracted from Millard French Books volume (Wiebenson/Baines, 1993, pp. 200, 204)