He co-founded Planète magazine with Louis Pauwels and others. He translated H. P. Lovecraft'. He is the basis of character Mik Ezdanitoff, in Hergé's comic book 'Vol 714 pour Sydney'.
Chemical engineer, he was part of the Resistance in France during WW II . He was a founding member of l'Association française des écrivains scientifiques (France's Association of scientific writers).