He wrote several successful songs during the 1840s, but his best known is one of his first: Ma Normandie (1836), which was adopted as an anthem by Jersey and is still a regional favorite in Normandy.
A renowned composer penned numerous hit songs in the 1840s, with "Ma Normandie" (1836) being his most iconic work to date, eventually becoming an anthem for Jersey and still cherished by locals in Normandy.