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Dictionary definition: Héré de Corny, Emmanuel
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Héré de Corny, Emmanuel
(1705–63). French architect (from 1738) to Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766), King of Poland (1704–9 and again 1733–4), and Duke of Lorraine and Bar (1736–66). For the Duke, Héré de Corny produced many elegant designs for châteaux and garden-buildings in Lorraine, but his masterpiece is the sequence of urban spaces in Nancy—the Place Royale (now Place Stanislaus), the promenade or Place de la Carrière, and the Hemicycle (1752–6), that together form the most exquisite and impressive work of
Rococo
urban planning in the world. Héré published his designs in
Recueil
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