He won two gold medals at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece, and later worked to increase participation in women's sports.

He finished fourth, behind fellow Frenchmen Gustave Sandras, Noël Bas and Lucien Démanet.

[2] At the 1903 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Payssé came joint second with Charles van Hulle [no] and Jules Lecoutre in the horizontal bar event.

[5] The matches were played for six months until they were blocked by the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, who banned men's football teams in their union from playing women's football teams.

[5] In December 1917, Payssé helped to set up the Fédération des Sociétés Féminines Sportives de France.