Career
He became interested in soaring after witnessing a competition at Vauville in 1925, and set out to design a competition glider with minimal drag, settling on the flying wing formula based on the work of Georges Abrial and René Arnoux. His greatest commercial success was the AV.36 sailplane, first flown in 1951. In 1979, he was killed in the crash of a Civil Aeronautics Board Supercab that he was piloting.