Education
He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen.
entomologist Photographer speleologist
He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen.
In 1910 he founded a laboratory for experimental speleobiology in Saint-Paër. His scientific collections and photographs brought back from his expeditions are kept at museums in Paris, London, Elbeuf and Rouen.
Société entomologique de France]
He was a member of the Société des sciences naturelles et amis du Museum de Rouen (1878), the Société botanique de France (1882) and the Société préhistorique française (1911).