In 1967–1968, he became a bookseller of used books, after reading a small advertisement. In 1971 he opened his own shop. He has lived since 1976 in a manor house of Nivernais where he has published various specialized catalogs on peddler literature, roman noir, literary cranks, or else neo-Latin poetry in Europe from the XVIth to the XIXe. He is an expert at the Court of Appeal of Bourges, an expert approved by the National Company of Experts. Passionate about humanism and scholarship, he has, in his researches and works, given priority to works ignored by the culture officially taught : The baroque poets, the bizarre, paraliterature, the little romantics, and so on. He has reprinted the Légendes et chants de gestes canaques by Louise Michel, as well as various other forgotten works. As an editor, he published collections by,, Jean-Claude Carrière, John Roman Baker|, Jean-Pierre Luminet and Jules Roy.
Literature and bibliography
In 1989, the Éditions Belfond published his Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus, a bibliographic catalog of an important collection of gastronomy books. In 1992, he wrote the catalog Kilian Fritsch, a book collector on wine and oenology, whose library was scattered during a sale organized by Guy Loudmer in 1993. In 2000, he became a writer, his first novel was a detective one. He is also a chronicler at France Musique. in the américan magazine Men's Journal and Lire and since 2012 at Lire He has a correspondence with Jim Harrison which partly appeared in Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand in 2001.
Publications
1972: De Horace Walpole… à Jean Ray : l’évolution du roman noir, gothique et frénétique, Manoir de Pron
1985: Fous à lire, fous à lier : ouvrages écrits par des hétéroclites, fous littéraires, autodidactes, bizarres et autres, Manoir de Pron
1986: La Bibliothèque Bleue en Normandie : livres de colportage de Rouen et Caen du XVIIe au XIXe siècle, Manoir de Pron
1988: Les Poètes néo-latins en Europe du XIe au XXe siècle, Manoir de Pron
1988: Louise Michel : légendes et chants de gestes canaques, présentation édition 1900
1989: Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus, ou histoire du boire et du manger en Europe de l'Antiquité à nos jours, à travers les livres, Paris, Éditions Belfond,
1992 Hécatongraphie, Manoir de Pron
1992: Une bibliothèque bachique : collection Kilian Fritsch, Loudmer
1993: Léon Cladel, le rural écarlate 1835–1892 : livres, correspondances et manuscrits ; notices by Pierre Saunier, Manoir de Pron
1996: Auguste Poulet-Malassis, un imprimeur sur le Parnasse : ses ancêtres, ses auteurs, ses amis, ses écrits, Montigny-sur-Canne, Manoir de Pron, et Imprimerie Alençonnaise