In 1875, he joined the Haviland workshop at Auteuil, and in 1881 he was appointed director of the Haviland studio on the rue Blomet in Paris, where he made rustic brown stoneware and frequently collaborated with Albert-Louis Dammouse (1848–1926) and his brother Édouard-Alexandre Dammouse (1850–1903) (2013.473
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