[citation needed] He was a brilliant student at the Bourbon College, and then spent some time at the University of Berlin.

A landowner at Saint-Denis (Deux-Sèvres), he built a public school at his own expense.

When the Franco-Prussian war began, on 15 August 1870 he enlisted at the age of 52 in the 95th infantry regiment.

He fought a duel in 1873 with a Bonapartist journalist about and article on Lecointe-Puyraveau, his maternal grandfather.

[1] Pierre-Louis Tribert died in his property of Puyraveau in Saint-Denis, in Deux-Sèvres, on 15 June 1899 at the age of seventy nine.