He joined the French Communist Party at age 15 after reading Maxim Gorki"s The Mother.
Called to Moscow where he became a professor at Tiflis and president of an association of Marxist writers. Disillusioned by the Moscow trials of 1937, he left the party, became a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, and was ordained as a priest in 1941.
Studied in the universities of France, Germany, and England. He was Editor of the "Catholic Journal" and Director of the Institut de Psychosynthese in Paris.