He went into the air force and continued his services as a pilot-aviator in the squadrons of the front, in the Vosges, then in Syria.

[3] After the war Mr. Peyrouton was assigned to Madagascar as deputy director of the civil cabinet of the Governor General of this Colony, then was delegate of the Commissioner of the Republic in Cameroon.

In 1925, he was director of the Economic Agency of the African territories under mandate, then, in 1928, fulfilled the functions of the deputy chief of the cabinet of the Minister of the Colonies.

[3] The award is seen in the picture from the 1930s accompanying this article Peyrouton next served as the Secretary General of French Algeria from 1931 to 1933, and as the Resident-General of Tunisia from 1933 to 1936.

[8] While American Jewish organizations objected to his appointment due to his recent Vichy past, US Ambassador Robert Daniel Murphy suggested Peyrouton was not antisemitic.

In letters to Generals de Gaulle and Giraud he requested that he be allowed to serve as a captain in the infantry, the rank he held in the army reserve.

[10] The Legion of Honor Leonore database[11] of recipients contains no information on Mr. Peyrouton suggesting that his award was revoked presumably in response to his collaboration with Germany.