When he was he apprenticed at the Pavillon Landais and at the Bordeaux Hotel School. 그 다음에는 유니레뱅의 미셸 게라르 레스토랑으로 자리를 옮겼습니다. Five years later, in , he was hired as an assistant at Le Moulin de Mougins, where he worked with Chef Roger Verge.