Radicaux indépendants
Augagneur was born in Lyon. He represented the Independent Socialists (from 1904 to 1905), the Republican-Socialist Party (from 1910 to 1919) and the Independent Radicals (from 1928 to 1931) in the Chamber of Deputies. He was Minister of Public Works, Posts and Telegraphs from 1911 to 1912, Minister of National Education in 1914 and Naval Minister from 1914 to 1915. He was Governor of Madagascar from 1905 to 1910 and Governor of French Equatorial Africa from 1920 to 1923. He was the mayor of Lyon from 1900 to 1905.