Jean-Pierre Déricoyard was born on 21 July 1907 to an Azande family in Bambili, Orientale Province, Belgian Congo.
[4] He eventually became an administrator of a Congolese businessmen cooperative and the leader of an ethnic association for people from Ituri and the Uélés.
[2] Déricoyard also became the president of the Frères Maristes alumni association[5] and served on the advisory board for the monthly La Voix du Congolaise.
[2] At his initiative, the organisation urged the colonial administration to hold a round table conference to discuss the political future of the Congo.
[9] On 18 December 1962 a motion of censure was tabled against Déricoyard in the Chamber of Deputies, who was serving as Minister of Economic Affairs.