He grew up in an artistic colony around Symbolist poet Saint-Pol-Roux and drew the life of the port whilst very young.
Under the influence of the Saint-Pol-Roux, he left for Paris to train under painter Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas.
[3] From 1916 he was mobilised in the infantry and served among others as an interpreter for American and Scottish troops.
From 1928 he collaborated with the Henriot factory, a faïencerie de Quimper.
[5] He also created dioramas of Brest, France for the Musée de la Tour Tanguy.