[2] He served in World War I, in the 106th Infantry Regiment of the French Army and had his left arm amputated in 1916 after being wounded at Verdun on 29 January.

[1][3][4][6] He also designed many statues of Joan of Arc, including one in Rouen placed effectively on the site where she was executed (1928).

[7][2] Additionally, he designed busts for the Dukes of Guise and Orleans,[1] and a monument to King Edward VII at Biarritz (1922).

[10] When he found out that Francois Thalamas, a Professor at the Lycee Condorcet who was critical of Joan of Arc, was to give lectures at the Sorbonnes, he made sure to disrupt their course with his collaborators.

His statue of General Charles Mangin, which was made thanks to a subscription launched by Marshal Foch and erected on the Place Denys-Cochin, was destroyed by the Germans who occupied Paris in October 1940, on the express orders of Adolf Hitler, one of only two statues in Paris he ordered destroyed.