He was a professor-lecturer of European culture, an outstanding artist and pianist as witnessed by Ignacy Paderewski who took an interest in him and considered that he had the stuff of "a talent of the first order."

Passionate about music he met Gabriel Fauré, Georges Martin Witkowski, maintained correspondence with Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, gave musicology lessons at the Conservatoire de Lyon and poetry, met Paul Claudel, Francis Jammes, Paul Valéry... For 33 years, he left an irreplaceable imprint on his students.

Attentive to the literature of his time, he corresponded with the greatest of his time: Jean Cocteau, Paul Claudel, Gabriel Fauré, André Gide, Louis Mercier, Max Jacob, Henry de Montherlant, Charles Péguy, Raymond Radiguet, Albert Thibaudet, Paul Valéry and many others.

[3] His finesse of analysis, his just judgment modeled on classicism, reflect his great sensitivity, knowing how to exalt poetic and musical beauty: "Artist to the depths of his being, in love with great painters, pianist of remarkable technique and personality in interpretation, he had an extraordinary faculty of emotion" (Mgr Lavallée).

His luxurious correspondence and intimate notebooks are a treasure in which all lovers and students of literature can find the formulas and analyzes of a language as perfect as spontaneous.