A student with
Paul Perdrizet at the faculty for letters of Nancy, he joined the
École Normale Supérieure and obtained the
agrégation de lettres. As member of the French School of Athens, he participated in the research program established by
Théophile Homolle in
Delos and worked on the epigraphy of the site. He then searched the great Egyptian and Syrian ensembles west of
Cynthus. Chosen by
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to edit the catalog of dedications and decrees of Delos (1914) for issue IV of the
Inscriptiones Graecae, he defended his thesis in 1916. Professor at the
lycée Janson-de-Sailly during World War II, he became master of conferences on Greek literature and language at
Bordeaux University in 1918, then in Strasbourg and took the direction of the French School at Athens in 1925. In addition to Delos, he directed excavations at
Malia,
Thasos and
Philippi. In 1935, he was appointed at the Chair of
Greek history of the
Sorbonne. In 1930 he was elected a corresponding member of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres then full member in 1937. == Works ==