He edited the weekly publication ''L'Écho des îles Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ("The Echo of the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon")''. With his brother-in-law Henri, he was a part of the collaborationist elite of Saint-Pierre, causing them both to be arrested in
January 1944. Despite both being fervent anti-
Gaullists, they became political adversaries. ==References==