 In 1968, he founded the Department of Chemistry at the University Institutes of Technology of Le Mans.He argued his doctoral thesis at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in 1977.He was a teacher at the University of Maine from 1981 to 1996 and the at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University since that date, where he founded the Lavoisier Institute.