 Educated at the École polytechnique,
he worked in the history service of the army from 1900 to 1906.He served in World War I, was made a général de brigade in 1917 and was killed that year in Serbia.He translated Clausewitz's "Der Feldzug von 1796 in Italien" (1859) as "Études sur la campagne de 1796-1797 en Italie" (1889).