[1][2] Source:[3] Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers went to high school at the collège Albert de Mun, at Michel Bouts' école du Gai Savoir, a school based on the principles of active learning, then at the co-ed lycée of Meaux, now Lycée Henri Moissan.
[4] Having graduated from ENSICA as an engineer in 1962,[5] he spent twenty years working as an executive in the industrial sector and for a private firm running public services.
In 1992, he created a consultancy firm specialised in instructional design and based in Boulogne-Billancourt.
[7] He began to write in 1954, encouraged by the poet Jehan Despert who published some of his work in his Cahiers de l'Île de France[8] and got him a column in the daily newspaper Figaro[9] Since 1959, he has worked with cultural associations, among which: Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers belongs to the Société des poètes français, the French Poets Society.
Besides his professional and literary work, he is involved in various types of political and social action.