His mother, Arlette Lemoine, was the great-granddaughter of English fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth.

[1] He began his secondary education in 1938 at the Collège Annel, in Compiègne, and concluded it at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris.

He was the first French soldier to enter Strasbourg in November 1944, while the German Army was still in the process of evacuating the city.

[2] After surviving World War II in Strasbourg, Pascal studied at the Sorbonne before turning to fashion-designing for Christian Dior.

[4] He later represented Luxembourg again in the 1981 contest and finished 11th of 20 with the song "C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique" ('It may not be America'), with words and music he composed together with Sophie Makhno and Jean-Claude Petit.