Born in Briouze, Orne in Lower Normandy, he was successful in his native France as well as in the United States.

[1] Of his works, Bisson is best remembered for his play Madame X, which was performed in 1910 both in Paris and on Broadway with Sarah Bernhardt in the leading role.

Over the years, the play would be revived for Broadway three times and nine Madame X motion pictures in several languages have been filmed.

Bisson also adapted the 1910 best-selling Florence Barclay novel, The Rosary as a three-act play for the Paris stage.

Widely acclaimed in the United States, Bisson was invited to write about the theatre by The Saturday Evening Post and his articles "The Dilemmas of the Theater" and "How the World Contributes to the American Stage" were published in 1912.