[citation needed] Cavalry officer, he served in the 12th Chasseurs Regiment (French: 12ème Régiment de Chasseurs) at Sedan, then in the 1st Dragoon Regiment (French: 1er Régiment de Dragons) at Lure where he participated to the first Gulf War (Operation Daguet).

In 1984, Chef de peloton then Captain at the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment 1er REC at Orange, he was engaged in exterior missions in Mayotte, Tchad and in the Central African Republic.

At the general staff headquarters of the Armies (French: l'état-major des armées) from 1997 to 2000, he took part to the planning and conduit of operations led in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Kosovo and in Macedonia, at the corps of the crisis cell « Yougoslavie » of the inter-arm operational center.

In 2006, he served in the Inter-arm Center of Experimentations for Concepts and Doctrines (French: Centre Interarmées de Concepts de Doctrines et d’Expérimentations) and became the planning assistant and chief of the J5 at the center of planning and operations conduit in June 2007.

In March 2022 he succeeded Bruno Dary as head of the Comité de la Flamme, overseeing the rekindling of the Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.