stayed until the end of his 25-year military career in 1913, aged 46. After retiring from the army, he undertook a tour of France's Orchestres d'Harmonie. He left his post in Biarritz in 1904, moving to Saint-Claude in Jura. In 1906–1907, he was the Chef de la Musique l'Espérance de Morez. During the two seasons of 1909 and 1910, he was chief of the Grand Théatre de Lyon. On March 1, 1910, he joined the Union Musicales d'Amplepuis (Rhône). After the outbreak of World War I he left the Union, but six months later in 1916 became the head of the Harmonie de Lalinde in Dordogne. Lemire returned to Lyon in 1917, where his son, Jean (1917–1987), was born from his second marriage to Elisabeth Romeuf (1894–1966), originally from Saint-Ferréol-d'Auroure (upper Loire). He returned to Belfort in 1918, and his hometown of Colmar in 1919. On 24 May 1921, Lemire was appointed Chef de l'Harmonie for the house orchestra at a paper manufacturer at Anould in the Vosges, sharing this function with one of the former military musicians from the city of Lyon. Lemire's whereabouts for the following years are unknown, but it is known that he left Lyon in 1931, subsequently moving to Sarthe. His son, Jean, was first a student of the military school in Autain, later of the Prytanée de La Flèche (1936-1938). After arriving in Sarthe, Lemire retired from conducting, though continued to give some music lessons. In 1935, having been decorated with the military medal of the Colonial Medal of Madagascar and elevated to the rank of Knight of the Medal of Anjouan of the Comores, he settled in the valley of Saint-Germain. On 26 February 1945, aged 77, he was admitted to the hospital of La Flèche, where he died on 2 March. His wife left the area in 1948, to her family in Alsace. Works and legacy Lemire began composing principally some time after being first appointed Chief of Fanfare. Rather than symphonies or operas, he composed what he described as "music of the open air", ie. light and fashionable music aimed at the mass market rather than intellectual elites, such as marches, waltzes, polkas, scottisches, and "Pas Redoublés", where dancers divide into various formations. For the transverse flute, his instrument, Jean-Baptiste composed some early works with piano accompaniment such as "Solo pour flûte" (Lyon 1904); later with orchestral accompaniment as in "Erimel"