[1] Involved in the Human Rights League, in 1917 he was secretary of the Épernay section, a town where he was assigned as a history and geography teacher, before being appointed at the start of the 1919 school year to Bar-le-Duc.
In 1927 he obtained a position as professor of philosophy at the École alsacienne, but his participation in the strike of February 12, 1934 the school management requested for his departure.
A member of the Association des écrivains et artistes révolutionnaires (AEAR), he denounced in the journal Commune, the spirit of "capitulation to fascism" after the Munich Agreement.
[3] After the Liberation, he also worked towards the unification of secondary school teachers' unionism, participating in the discussions which led to the birth of the SNES.
He was briefly chief of staff to Henri Wallon, appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of National Education after the Liberation, he then returned to his post at the Henri-IV high school.