Background
He was born on 1 March 1867 in Pesmes.
He was born on 1 March 1867 in Pesmes.
He was a French gendarme. He was a French gendarme in Saint Denis, Réunion where Salima Machamba, sultan (queen) of Mohéli (Mwali) resided, and she fell in love with and on 28 August 1901 married him, in Saint Denis, Réunion. The queen was deported with her family to France.
Her wife gave birth to three children.
They lived as simple farmers in Haute-Saône, and he died in Champagney on 22 September 1946.