[2] Vouaux was awarded an Arts degree (license dès-lettres) in 1895 and in 1898 he passed the grammar aggregation competition (licence l'agrégation de grammaire) as a prelude to appointment to an academic post.

[3] He was appointed to the staff of the ecclesiastical college of Malgrange, near Nancy, where he taught literature and mathematics until his death.

[2] He was awarded the annual literary Prix Saintour posthumously by the Académie Française in November 1915 for his book about St.

He was influenced to focus on lichens by two other member of staff at the college, Harmand and Le Monnier.

He was active in describing lichens from 1909 and his accounts began to be published in the Bulletin of the Mycological Society of France from 1912.

[5] His death in the small town of Jarny on 26 August 1914 was caused by the First World War, even though he was a civilian.

[4][6]: 224–226  His death is recorded on a monument in Jarny[7] and also among the list of writers who died in the First World War [fr] inscribed within the Pantheon in Paris.