Career
He was a student at the Collège des Minimes and also took classes at the University of Lyon as a pupil of geologist Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet. Although he never received a diploma, he dedicated his time and energies to geological research of the Jura, the Lyonnaise region and the Alps. Grande médaille du Congrès des sociétés savantes.
Médaille d"or du concours de la Sorbonne, 1880.
Médaille d"or de l"Académie de Lyon.