He became well-known when he became director of the "Cinéma d'aujourd'hui" collection, published by Éditions Seghers [fr].
In 1968, he entered a film competition with the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, but it was cancelled due to the events of May 68.
Five years later, he became an independent publisher and reprised "Cinéma d'aujourd'hui" and created several other collections.
[4] He stopped self-publishing in 1988 and joined upper management at Éditions des Quatre-Vents.
[11] He became Editor-in-Chief of Présence du cinéma français and created the bookstore Contacts in 1955, which closed its doors in 2013.