He was educated at the Jesuit College in Reims and at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where he quickly showed his intellectual ability and gained his first public distinctions in mathematics.
Obrazovao se na Jesuit College u Reimsu i na College de Navarre u Parizu, gde je brzo pokazao svoje intelektualne sposobonosti i stekao svoje prvo odličje u matematici.