From 1942, he learned the craft of luthier in the workshop of his father, located at 11 bis rue Portalis [fr] in Paris.
[1][2] He perfected his skills in Mirecourt with luthier Amédée-Dominique Dieudonné, in Paris in the studio of Victor Quenoil, then in New York at Rembert Wurlitzer.
He was renowned for his diagnostic capabilities[2] He regulated the instruments of numerous international soloists that he accompanied on tour, like French violinist Ginette Neveu.
During his career, he advised Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Grumiaux, Isaac Stern, Anne-Sophie Mutter, cellists such as Maurice Gendron and Yo-Yo Ma, as well as Mstislav Rostropovich, whom he had known since the 1960s.
In 1973, he acquired a quartet of stringed instruments made in the same wood by luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and nicknamed "les Évangélistes".