When the Algerian War ended and he was three years old, he returned to France and in the Basque-French city of Bayonne when he was 16 years old, where he learned the Basque language.
After the Algerian War concluded and he was young, he moved back to France and lived in Bayonne, a Basque-French city, at age sixteen, during which time he acquired knowledge of the Basque language.