He obtained doctorates in medicine (1894) and sciences (1899) at the
University of Caen. From 1904 to 1923, he was chair of zoology at the
University of Montpellier, afterwards attaining the chair of marine biology at the
Sorbonne. At the same time, he was also named director of the Arago laboratory in
Banyuls-sur-Mer, and in 1931 became manager of the biological station at
Villefranche-sur-Mer.[2]
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