Personal Life
In his student ages he studied advertising. His 1930 season was interrupted because he had to fulfill his military service. While playing amateur tennis he worked as a tire salesman in the mean time. Later he was appointed the Director of Communications for IBM France. Apart from his tennis playing style he is known as the first man to wear shorts instead of pants on court. He was in a civil partnership with French parfume designer Germaine Cellier with whom he lived together for 30 years until she died in 1976. He died at the age of 95, the last surviving Musketeer. He had a brother Roland, also amateur tennis player, with whom he won the doubles title of the Le Touquet Spa Championships in 1937, while also winning the singles and mixed contest as well.
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