Career
Educated at Saint Barbe and the École Polytechnique, he entered the Naval Engineering School in 1864 and in 1867 left to join the Belleville works at Saint Denis, near Paris. He became a partner and finally head of the firm which produced the well-known Belleville boilers, and later the Delaunay-Belleville automobile. He was president of the Paris Chamber of Commerce from 1890 to 1909.