Career
After fighting in World War I he focused on professional cycling. He was nicknamed "sioux" (by Michel Berthet) due to his dark skin color and nose shape, which was flattened in a fall in 1912. He retired in 1933 and moved to Verneuil-sur-Avre, France, and ran a sawmill nearby.
A street is named after him in his native Floreffe and in Verneuil-sur-Avre where he died in 1977.