Career
He had a pivotal role in the accession of anarchists to the French trade-unions congress Workers" Force (Confédération générale du travail-FO). He became secretary of the departmental union of Loire Atlantique, from its inception, as well as Raymond Patoux, secretary of the departmental union of Maine et Loire, as shown by the research Libertaires et syndicalistes révolutionnaires dans la Confédération Générale du Travail - Force Ouvrière (1946-1957) by Guillaume Trousset, andL"Union Départementale Confédération générale du travail-Force ouvrière de Maine et Loire de 1948 à 195 by Manuella Noyer. He played an important role in the accession to these unions of militants of the autonomous Fédération de l"Education Nationale in 1982, 1983 and 1984.
A fighter for workers" emancipation in all circumstances, he did not hesitate to separate himself from some of his anarchist fellows who took another way, including that of joining the varieties of Christian trade unionism.
Free-thinker, secular activist, and rationalist, he took part in the initiative of the l"Appel aux laïque against the policy concerning the public schools and the institutions of the Republic followed by the President of the Republic François Mitterrand.