[1] Upon the recommendation of Father Jules Chevalier, he composed six large panels for the convent of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.

There, he befriended the poet, Maurice Rollinat who, in turn, introduced him to Ferdinand Humbert; an influential painter who helped to promote his career by obtaining government commissions.

In 1920, when his sister-in-law moved her family to Guéret, a visit there encouraged him to build another villa, called "Renabec", where he stayed every summer after 1923.

This prompted him to build another, isolated house, near Toulon, on the slopes of Mont Coudon [fr], called "La Florentine".

During the years of World War II, he lived at "La Florentine", where Fernande died in 1945.

He died three years later, in Paris, in the home of his niece, the painter Solange Christauflour [fr].