[1] A friend of Adrien Marquet, Mayor of Bordeaux, he followed him when the neo-socialists broke up with the French Section of the Workers' International.
He joined the French army in 1939 at the outset of World War II.
[3] He was arrested as a hostage by the Gestapo on 10 August 1943 and deported to the Füssen-Plansee work camp, a converted former hotel used for personalities.
[4] He served as a member of the National Assembly from 17 June 1951 to 1 December 1955, representing Gironde.
[1][2] Although close to the overtly Petainist Union des nationaux indépendants et républicains he won his seat under the banner of the Rally of French Republican and Independent Groups.