[2] His schooling commenced nearby at Soissons, from where he won a place at the prestigious Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris, later progressing to the national École Polytechnique.

[4] Louppe's involvement in the manufacture of gunpowder brought him unwelcome publicity in the national press following the explosions of the battleships Iéna in 1907 and Liberté in 1911.

Following lengthy investigation, the cause of the explosion was traced back to "Powder B" (Nitrocellulose gunpowder), recently introduced to battleship guns during the arms race at the beginning of the twentieth century, which was determined to have become unstable over time.

Their antipathy was played out not merely in the media, but also in the departmental council of Finistère to which both had been elected as regional deputies,[11] and where Louppe represented the canton of Faou between 1901 and 1927.

[13] Louppe's career in national politics took off in 1914 when he was elected a Deputy representing the second electoral district (Châteaulin) of Finistère,[4] in the process unseating the anti-Dreyfusard Charles Daniélou.

On 11 December 1885, at Brest, Albert Louppe married Hortense Gabrielle Steff, the daughter of a wine merchant originally from Moselle, in the east.

He had been predeceased by his wife a couple of years earlier, and was buried with her in the Steff family burial plot at the Cemetery of St Martin (Square 16) in Brest.