 Apprentice at "École de guerre navale" (1923–1924), he commanded in 1925, the submarine in the Mediterranean.Capitaine de corvette in January 1927, he was assigned in the previous November to the cabinet of Georges Leygues, minister of the Navy (), where he particularly worked towards the specific enacting of the organic decree of April 22, 1927 which reorganized the navy.He was appointed to command the destroyer in the Mediterranean in 1929, Capitaine de frigate in April 1930, he was tasked to manage and run the application school of the "enseignes de vaisseau" embarked on board the 1st Light Division which replaced in provision the "Jeanne-d'Arc" and conducted accordingly a long campaign on the African coasts, Antilles and the Mediterranean.