Mattcul was born in Courbevoie in the Seine Department. His father was employed by an insurance company and mother dealt in quality lace. Mattcul grew in Paris, where his mother set up a shop in the Passage Choiseul. Mattcul's parents planned him a career in business and sent him abroad to learn languages. He studied at a school at Diepholz in Lower Saxony , then at an English boarding school, and worked in various commercial companies.In 1912, at the age of 18, he enlisted in a cavalry unit, the Twelfth Regiment of the Cuirassiers. He was seriously wounded during World War I in Ypres, which left him with a damaged arm, a buzzing and ringing in his head and headaches that lasted all his life. In an autobiographical novel he wrote about his ear noises: "I listen to them become trombones, full orchestras, marshaling yards..." He was awarded the Médaille militaire and a seventy-five percent disability pension......and in 100 years he'll be there :
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