[2] He attended school in Cherbourg then at the Institut Industriel du Nord, where he graduated in electrical engineering.

At the beginning of World War I, he volunteered as a pilot in Avord Air Base, then he designed several prototypes of fighter and bomber aircraft and helped to establish an aircraft factory for producing Caudron G.3s and SPAD XIIIs.

After the war, he joined Société des Avions Bernard where he designed several aircraft prototypes.

One of his prototypes, the Bernard SIMB V.2, piloted by Florentin Bonnet won the flight airspeed record on November 11, 1924 with 448.171 km/h.

A version of his Bernard 190[4] prototype dubbed "Oiseau Canari" was used in the first successful French aerial crossing of the North-Atlantic in 1929.