 He organized the rallying of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon to the Free French Forces and became its governor.After the war, he participated in the restoring of the Republican State.A member of the French Section of the Workers' International (Socialist Party, SFIO) he was deputy for Saint-Pierre et Miquelon throughout most of the Fourth Republic, from 1944 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1958.