He studied at the École des beaux-arts in Rennes alongside Pierre Charles Lenoir, Éloi Emile Robert, Armel Beaufils, Emmanuel Guérin, Francis Renaud (sculptor) Louis Henri Nicot and Jean Boucher (artist) and later became professor of sculpture at the school.
That in the centre is an allegory for the motherland, armed and helmeted and carrying a flag and sword whilst below her and to her left, a dying soldier reaches up to hand her a statuette depicting "Victory".
[7][8] Bourget was commissioned in 1925 to provide a sculpture for this memorial and working in granite, he sculpted a helmeted soldier ("poulu") with rifle who leans on a rock looking at a cross and the graves of his comrades.
[10] The figure of Hermes or Mercury holding a caduceus on this building in Rennes, the old PTT headquarters, was sculpted by Bourget as were the statues symbolizing Industry and Agriculture.
It holds mosaics by Isidore Odorico, paintings by Louis Garrain and sculpture by Bourget who created a depiction of Christ on the Cross for the church's porch and several gargoyles.