Background
Son of Louis Yvert, one of Yvert et Tellier"s founders, he was manager of magazine L"Écho de la timbrologie and of many philatelic associations. He was born in Asnières-sur-Seine and in 1917, he volunteered in the French army and fought during World War I. Foreign his actions, he received the Cross of War medal.
Career
Successful in this task, he became manager of the magazine that had been printed by the family company in Amiens since the 1880s. He travelled a lot like his father for philatelic purposes: visiting philatelic exhibitions, participating to the main association meetings During the German occupation of France, he made the family printer survived with the lack of workers and paper.
In 1945 he became a soldier again to free the port of Saint-Nazaire.
He died in 1964.
Elected president of the International Federation of Stamp Dealer Associations, he was chosen in January 1943 to sit in the 17th chair of the French Académie de philatélie. Outside the philatelic universe, he was first world vice-president of the Rotary International.
Even locally, he was in 1952 president of the Automobile Club of Picardie and Artois.