A former Paris hospital intern, in 1934 he practised at the Hotel Dieu working in professor H. Dausset’s physiology department. In 1935 he passed his viva for his thesis: ’the prevention and treatment of disabling rheumatism through methodical mobilisation’.
Member of the French League against Rheumatism, the French Physical Medicine Society and The French Hydrology and Climatology Society, in 1953 he became chief medical officer of the Rockroum marine institute in Roscoff where he died in 1981.
He is author of numerous publications:
Several guidelines for physiotherapeutic treatments. (Gazette Médicales de France n°8.1937).
Cellulite, the big unknown (Rheumatology, Aix Les Bains, October 1949).
Functional rehabilitation and recuperation at the seaside. (Perros-Guirec sea therapy conference, October 1956).
Thermo-climatology possibilities in rheumatology. (10th International Thalassotherapy conference, Cannes, 1957).
Thalassotherapy for chronic rheumatism. (La presse thermale et climatique. N°4 juillet 1959).
Thalassotherapy for chronic inflammatory rheumatism. A 60 year experiment (10th thalassotherapy conference. Estoril 1961).
Massage’s place in thalassotherapy. (Annales de Médecine Physique, T.V. N°3, July 1962).
Chronic degenerative rheumatism. Treatment techniques at the Rockroum marine institute, Roscoff. (12th International Thalassotherapy conference, Venice 1963).
Functional medicine in a maritime climate. (French Hydrology and climatology Society 1966).
Chronic pain syndromes and thalassotherapy. (French Hydrology and climatology Society, Rennes 1980).