Along with with his studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he enteres L’Institut d’études politiques et sociales de Paris (known as Sciences Po), from which he will be temporarily suspended that year for disciplinary reasons.

Under the direction of Michel Serres, he defended his undergraduate thesis titled “Formation et Déplacement des concepts scientifiques selon Georges Canguilhem” [Development and Transfer of Scientific Concepts According to Georges Canguilhem].

Parallel to this, he contributes to the daily newspaper Combat, edited by Philippe Tesson, for which he makes an extensive report on the war in Northern Ireland as well as a number of reports on rural France.