Paul Lecéne was appointed interne des hôpitaux at Paris in 1900 and served under Terrier, de Peyrot, de Quenu, and Henri Hartmann. He was demonstrator of anatomy in 1901, prosector in 1903, and in 1904 gained a gold medal. He was nominated agrégé and chirurgien des hôpitaux in 1907, and acted as head of the operative surgery department 1910-12. From 1919 until his death he was chef de service at the Hospital of St Louis, and in 1920 he was appointed professor of external pathology in the University of Paris. He was a founder of the *Journal de Chirurgie* and for twenty years rendered valuable service as a member of the editorial committee. He also acted as secretary-general of the Société de Chirurgie. During the war he was at first surgeon to an ambulance, then chief of the surgical staff at Épernay, and finally consulting surgeon to an army. He was more especially interested in the subject of tumours, but in 1918 published a valuable series of lectures on the surgery of the war in which he dealt with arterio-venous aneurysms in the neck. He died of typhoid fever on 29 October 1929. Publications: *L'Évolution de la chirurgie*. Paris, 1923. *Chirurgie des os et des articulations des membres*, with P Huet. Paris, 1929.