Returning to Paris, he worked in publishing and then was reporter in the footsteps of Francisco Coloane, Nicolas Bouvier or Ella Maillart for ,[REF] le Figaro Magazine and Géo, which opened him a position of deputy editor-in-chief.
Coming to his thirties, this traveler, novelist, writer and essayist writer for whom "all travel ends in books and everything starts from a reading",[REF] published wandering narratives (Mission au Paraguay, Suite indochinoise..) and humorous novels (Capitaine, Le Fils du fakir).