During the Greek civil war, at the age of 12, he was sent to a boarding school in Paris, by Octave Merlier, the head of the French Institute in Athens, because his mother had been condemned to death as a communist fighter.
Во время Гражданской войны в возрасте 12 лет был направлен в школу-интернат в Париже, поскольку его мать, боец армии коммунистов, была осуждена на смерть.