He had been an international referee since 1922[REF] and twice refereed the Coupe de France (in 1926 and 1928) [REF].
He travelled to Uruguay on the SS Conte Verde, which also took Jules Rimet and the French, Belgian, Romanian and Brazilian teams to the first World Cup; picking up the teams en route from Genoa to Rio de Janeiro before disembarking at Montevideo harbour [REF].