He was mayor of
Hersin-Coupigny from 1959 to 1988 and general councilor for the canton of Bully-les-Mines from 1976 to 1982. A
Journalist by profession, he served as editor-in-chief of the Tribune des mineurs de Lens from 1948 to 1951, then as secretary-general of the daily newspaper Ce soir from 1951 to 1953. Elected in 1967 in the tenth district of Pas-de-Calais, he sat with the Communist group. He became Vice-President of the National Assembly on April 2, 1977, succeeding Guy Ducoloné, and remained in office until the end of the legislative term. Although he was consistently re-elected, he retired in 1981 after coming in second place to the
Socialist Party (France) candidate, Marcel Wacheux. ==References==