Born in 1914 Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. He is the son of the writer Raymond de Rigné, known as the pen of Raymond Vroncourt, and the great-grandson by his mother Adolphe Monod. He is the father-in-law of the writer François Augiéras. First in the entrance examination at the School of Decorative Arts in 1935, then at the National School of Fine Arts the following year, he won the silver medal (1939) and the gold medal at the Salon des artistes français . He was a boarder at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid between 1948 and 1949 (19th class), having been able to go there in 1940-1941. He obtains the price of Rome in engraving in intaglio. He is laureate of the Salon d'Agen in 1967.