Born: Boulogne-sur-Mer March 12, 1837;
Died: Meudon, March 29, 1911.
Organist, composer, professor, and editor.
His/her father, organist with the Saint Nicolas's Day
                                            church of Boulogne-sur-Mer east its first professor of
                                            music. To the 12 years age it follows courses of harmony
                      with Gustav Carulli (1801-1876), Italian installed in
                                            Boulogne-sur-Mer. In 1853, he is an organist with
                                            theSaint-Joseph church.

                                            In 1857 it replaces his father with the platform of Saint
                                            Nicolas's Day where the same year its first solemn Mass
                                            is created (in major F). It teaches the musical theory at
                                            the school of music of Boulogne, plays of the viola at the
                                            Philharmonic Company, and forms a orphéon which gains
                                            many prices.

                                            In 1860 it meets Jacques Nicolas Lemmens (1823-1881)
                                            in Paris and follows it to Brussels to follow its courses
                                            there. It inaugurates many organ of which the Cavaillé-coll
                                            of Saint-Sulpice of Paris, and that of Our-Lady of Paris in
                                            1868. In 1871, after the death of Alexis Chauvet who
                                            was the holder, it obtains the platform of the church of the
                                            Trinity in Paris. In 1878, he is an organist in residence in
                                            Trocadéro (Paris).

                                            He makes an international career of concert performer
                                            who leads it in Holland, Belgium, England, Canada, the
                                            United States, Spain, Italy. There publishes forgotten
                                            type-setters such Titelouze, Grigny, Clérambault and
                                            Couperin, while remaining attentive with its
                                            contemporaries (Liszt, Schumann, Rheinberger, Franck,
                                            Saint-Saëns, Widor and S. S. Wesley). It also registers
                                            with its repertory the concertos for organ and orchestra of
                                            Händel, and the transcriptions of Berlioz and Wagner.

                                            In 1896 it succeeds Widor, with the class of Organ of the
                                            Academy of Paris. Its pupils are Louis Vierne (his
                                            substitute), Joseph Bonnet, Achille Philip, Abel Decaux,
                                            George Jacob, Nadia Boulanger, Alexandre Cellier,
                                            Marcel Dupre, Ermend Bonnal, William Carl, J H. Loud,
                                            Clarence Eddy.