In October 1897 he joined the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in Orlu and then earned a diploma in philosophy and a licentiate in theology in Rome.
[a] In his first assignment he tutored the children of Admiral Paul Albert de Gueydon [fr], commandant of the French naval station in Senegal, for a year, which allowed him time to get his footing.
[3] On 23 April 1920, Pope Benedict XV appointed him titular bishop of Europus and Vicar Apostolic of Senegambia.
[4] He received his episcopal consecration in Paris on 30 May 1920 from Bishop Alexandre-Louis-Victor-Aimé Le Roy, Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers,[2] assisted by Raymond-René Lerouge, Vicar Apostolic of French Guinea, who had just been ordained a bishop on 25 May 1920, and Father Alfred Louis Keiling, Prefect Apostolic of Upper Cimbebasia.
In retirement he continued to live in the motherhouse of the Holy Ghost Fathers in Paris and he died there on 25 December 1954 at the age of 76.