Son of Jean Joseph Poncet and Catherine Jeanne Chabalier, he was inspired by his grandfather Jean-Pierre Antoine Chabalier, surgeon in the Imperial Army.
He studied medicine in Lyon, where he served as interne des hôpitaux. He was a member of the Lyon ambulance corps during the Franco-Prussian War, and in 1878 became a member of the surgical section of the Lyon faculty of medicine. In 1883 he attained the chair of operative medicine in Lyon.
Traité clinique de l’actinomycose humaine. with Léon Eugène Bérard (1870–1956). Paris, 1898.
Traité de la cystostomie sus-pubienne chez les prostatiques. Création d'un urèthre hypogastrique. with Xavier Delore (1828–1916). Paris, Masson et cie éditeurs, 1899. 444 pages.
Traité de l’uréthrostomie. with Xavier Delore. Paris, 1900.
Rhumatisme tuberculeux. with M. Mailland. Paris, 1909.