In 1894 he obtained his degree in natural sciences, followed by work as a botanical préparateur, then a lecturer, at the University of Lyon.

In 1912 he was a lecturer at the faculty of sciences in Nancy, where he eventually became an associate professor.

Later he gained a professorship at Clermont-Ferrand, and in 1923 returned as a professor to Lyon.

[1] From 1895 to 1938, he was a member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon, serving as its president on two separate occasions (1907 and 1928).

[1] In 1912 Jean Paul Vuillemin named the genus Beauveria (family Clavicipitaceae) in his honor[2] for his work the previous year on the type species - B. bassiana - transferring it from Botrytis.