[2] He won a gold medal in rugby union at the 1900 Summer Olympics with the French team.

[4] He married first Adelheid Lange in 1905, then after a divorce, Alice La Fontant in Haiti.

[5] He envisioned making Bali a national or international park with laws to regulate it as such.

In 1928 and 1929, he and Armand Denis shot Goona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama (also called The Kris) with assistance from Walter Spies.

It was released in the United States in 1930 and started an American craze for Bali.