[1] He studied under Emmanuel Pontremoli at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

[2] Herbé's first significant project as an independent architect was in 1933 when he and Robert Camelot he won the design competition for a girls' school in Beaune, France.

[5] With Jean Le Couteur he was responsible for the hospital at Fort Lamy in Chad (1953) and the Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger of Algiers (1955-1961).

[citation needed] He succeeded Auguste Perret as a studio head at the National School of Fine Arts.

[2] The studio headed by Herbé and Edouard Albert was one of the more progressive of those at the Beaux-Arts, and it was there that Jean-Paul Jungmann and Antoine Stinco of "pneumatique" fame were taught in the early 1960s.