Born in Château-Gontier, in 1828 Roger was admitted to study at the Conservatoire de Paris.
He studied harmony with Victor Dourlen, counterpoint with Anton Reicha, piano with Pierre Zimmermann and organ with François Benoist.
His composition teachers were Jean-François Lesueur and Ferdinando Paër.
At the beginning of 1843 he began his two-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which was associated with the prize.
Only one violin textbook (Grande méthode de violon) which was published in Paris in 1830, has survived of his works.