[2] Fauré-Fremiet was born on 29 December 1883 to the composer Gabriel Fauré and Marie Fremiet, the daughter of the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet.
[1] He was appointed an assistant lecturer in the Museum d'histoire naturelle in 1910, and then lecturer in Comparative embryology at the Collège de France in 1911, working under Louis-Félix Henneguy.
Fauré-Fremiet was a professor at the Sorbonne, and succeeded Henneguy as chair of comparative embryology at the Collège de France from 1928 to 1954.
[3] He published extensively on protozoology, especially the ciliates, on embryology, and experimental cell biology.
[5] In March 1913, Fauré-Fremiet married Jeanne, daughter of Louis-Félix Henneguy.