Education
Hupé studied sciences at the Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy, where he graduated in 1931 with the geneticist Lucien Cuenot.
paleontologist university professor
Hupé studied sciences at the Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy, where he graduated in 1931 with the geneticist Lucien Cuenot.
After that he was high school teacher of natural sciences. In the 1930s he made the first geological inventory of the Pyrenees on an assignment by Professor Charles Jacob. Between 1945 and 1949 he worked for the National Center for Scientific Research and in 1951 at started at the Laboratory of Geology of the Sorbonne.
Hupé is known for his classical works on trilobites, especially their classification.
He is also known for his work on the trilobites of the Lower Cambrian of Morocco, and his detailed stratigraphy, commissioned by the Service Geologique du Maroc in 1952. In 1959 he received his doctorate with a thesis titled Nouvelle contribution a l´etude du Cambrien Marocain.
He left his trilobites collection to the University of Rennes I, and to the Natural History Museum in Havre.