He studied in
Tours and
Paris, subsequently earning a bachelor of science degree (1860), a doctorate in medicine (1861), a first-class license in pharmacy (1864) and a doctorate in
natural sciences (1867).[1] He later became a professor of botanical
cryptogamy at the École supérieure de pharmacie in Paris.[2] He was
mayor of
Thiais, France from 1881 to 1887.[1]
Selected publications
Du Croton tiglium : recherches botaniques et thérapeutiques, 1861 -
Croton tiglium: botanical and therapeutic research.
Botanique cryptogamique pharmaco-médicale: Programme raisonné d'un cours professé à l'Ecole supérieure de pharmacie de Paris, 1880.
Révision du groupe des Anacardiacées - Revision involving the group
Anacardiaceae.
Synopsis et tableau synoptique des familles qui composent la classe des mycophytes (Champignons et Lichens), 1894 - Synopsis with a synoptic table of families that make up the class of mycophytes (
mushrooms and
lichens).[3]