In addition to playing football as a goalkeeper and being a secretary at his club, he joined the regional committee of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA) in 1909.

In 1910–1912, he joined the French Army, and was recruited during the First World War (1914–1918), where he was transferred, due to physical deficiencies, to the health service between Perpignan and Amélie-les-Bains.

[4] Later on, he commenced his career in journalism by writing the club's printed newsletter, Les dauphins, and the city's evening daily, L'information méridionale from February 1921.

[3] In 1929, he was assigned along with the journalist Gabriel Hanot, as an expert on the Commission d'étude formed by the French Football Federation Association (FFFA) to study players' status.

[7] On 27 August 1944, he assumed the presidency of the board of directors of Midi Libre in Montpellier, and was responsible for the programs of the local radio station,[8] in which he worked on the restoration of professional football, and the initiative to form the Groupement des clubs autorisés, following the conclusion of the war.