My path does not fit into a single category. Over more than forty years, I have moved from civil engineering to character real estate, from enterprise to writing: without ever ceasing to connect the concrete and the human.
The built environment, first
Everything begins in the field. A diploma in civil engineering drafting, obtained in 1982, then design offices and major construction sites: EDF at Cruas, the Eurodif facility, architectural practices. I learn what holds and what fails: forces, spans, the rigour of structure. For a time I work as a methods draughtsman, including at SGN in the nuclear sector: a brief stage.
The balance of places and people
Another attentiveness has been part of me since childhood: from the age of eleven, I took an interest in the care of people, in what settles them and sets them right again. Self-taught, and in a personal capacity, I have studied various forms of medicine over the years, from homeopathy to acupuncture, along with work on the subconscious. I never made it a single profession, but from it grew my way of accompanying others: perceiving what, in a place or in those who occupy it, sustains or hinders balance, and helping to restore it.
From the building trade to sales
The need for fieldwork and direct contact first leads me toward sales, as a commercial agent in individual house construction. It is there that these two concerns gradually converge, and that a conviction takes hold that will never leave me: a place is never neutral; it sustains or hinders those who inhabit it, their balance as much as their health; spatial reading, geobiology, Feng Shui, circulation analysis.
Irrinium, character real estate, then an international portal
In 1998, I found Irrinium to give form to this bond between a home and those who live in it: to design quality homes; careful architecture, noble materials, attention to the site and to the balance of those who live in it. For two years we built and restored properties alongside a masonry contractor, a craftsman trained in the spirit of the compagnonnage tradition. This standard of quality would remain the house’s signature. I naturally extend it toward character real estate: from 2000, Irrinium obtains its professional licences and devotes itself to the transmission of distinctive homes and estates steeped in history. An early adopter of the internet when agencies were still betting on print media, I extend this activity from national to international reach. In 2011, I launch an international real estate portal, run in parallel with Irrinium; with my son, we spend a little under three years developing an exhaustive specification. The serious failure of the service provider brings the project to a halt: a setback, but an invaluable education in large-scale systems.
Research, then the book
In 2022, I found a Laboratoire Conscientiel, a research space on consciousness: attention, perception, and the dynamics that hold a collective together. It is the same question, taken further: after what connects a place to those who live in it, what connects people to one another, and to what surrounds them. It is from this long process of reflection that Sageocracy was born: a proposal for governance by lucidity rather than by power. Not a utopia, nor an ideology: a direction. The text was completed in 2026; the French edition will be published in September 2027 by an independent publishing house.
Between 2023 and 2024 I published a series of personal explorations here, in a more inward register than my current writing. Those texts are no longer online: they belong to a stage of the research, not to the proposal the book puts forward. They remain accessible in web archives, and I disown none of them.
Underlying this entire journey is a conviction I impose on no one: consciousness is not a by-product of matter; it is its source. That is where, for me, everything connects.
From civil engineering to writing, a continuous trajectory at the intersection of the concrete and the human.
Accompanying distinctive homes and historically significant estates: since 2000.
Research space on consciousness and collective dynamics, founded in 2022.
To be published in French in September 2027. Governing by lucidity, not by power.