[3] After serving as a captain aide-major during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he joined the Société de construction des Batignolles (SCB) as an engineer in 1873.

He specialized in the study and execution of major projects involving bridges and metal structures.

[5] Having become chief engineer of the SCB, Jules Goüin appointed him to the board of directors and the management committee.

He was president of the Société des ingénieurs civils de France in 1903, of the general Congress of civil engineering, and of the École Spéciale d'Architecture, a member of the Superior Council of Public Works, the Council of the Syndicate Chamber of Metal Construction of France, and numerous other commissions.

[6] He also received the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889 as a collaborator of the Société de construction des Batignolles, especially for the Viaur Viaduct project, and the Montyon Prize (scientific category) in 1903 for his conception of "balanced arches.