He served two years of corniche at the Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève at Versailles before attending École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1930.

He graduated from Saint-Cyr in the Général Joseph Joffre promotion and was assigned to the 35th Infantry Regiment at Belfort as platoon commander (Lieutenant) then transmission officer.

With the outbreak of World War II, he belonged to the Legion group of the French Levant and volunteered to fight in France in the 20th Colonial Infantry Regiment.

Promoted to Captain, in December 1940, he sailed to Beirut to rejoin the 6 REI with whom which he fought against the British and Free French Forces in the Syria-Lebanon Campaign in June-July 1941.

[1] He died of wounds during the night of 7–8 October 1950, while the remaining survivors of the battalion filtered across Viet Minh lines to That Khe.