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 celebrated composer produced numerous popular songs in the 1840s, with "Ma Normandie" (1836) being one of his earliest masterpieces that went on to become an anthem for Jersey and is still fondly remembered by locals in Normandy.