[1] At the age of 8 when Lhande's father died he moved to Sauguis-Saint-Étienne in Soule with his mother.
A young man, he joined the Seminary of Bayonne but was subsequently expelled due to his pre-occupation with poetry and the Basque language.
After a teaching spell in El Puerto de Santa María, he returned to Belgium and was ordained in August 1910.
He would remain in the Basque Country until his death in 1957 in the Saint-Antoine à Tardets home.
[1] The author of numerous pieces of writing, he is perhaps best known for his monumental 1926 Dictionnaire Basque-Français of the Northern Basque dialects Labourdin, Lower Navarrese and Souletin.