[2] His father was Jacques Ernest Laure (Ingénieur des Arts et Manufactures).

At the time of the outbreak of World War II, he commanded 9e Corps d'Armée.

After his release, he served the Vichy government as Secretary-General to the Head of State until April 1942.

[4] Freed following the intervention of Marshal Philippe Pétain, Laure became secretary general of the office of the head of state (secrétaire général du cabinet du chef de l'État) on 15 November 1940[5][6] and, in December, secretary general of the Légion française des combattants (LFC), the Vichy veterans organization, replacing Xavier Vallat.

He was tried in the Épuration légale (French: "legal purge") anti-collaborator trials that followed World War II in France.