in 1910 with a thesis on nerve involvement of tabes which came from work done with Dejerine, Landouzy, and Laennec.

He worked as a physician at La Rochefoucauld from 1922 to 1936, then at Beaujon Hospital (Clichy) until 1940, and in Paris at the Hôpital Boucicaut until his retirement in 1945.

He hid allied airmen whom his son Jacques would then smuggle from France to Spain.

[6] Brincourt concluded his fine eulogy this way: ‘‘His indefatigable devotion, his goodness and his selflessness were only known to his patients.

His modesty and dislike of public gatherings prevented his work from having the dissemination it deserved.