He comes from a modest family who settled in the old popular neighborhood of Marseille. In 1920, he was hired by the Marseille-Colbert as a carrier of dispatches, and then as postman from 1928 to 1950 by the Post Office in Marseille. In 1936, helped by his friends Andre Malraux an Louis Aragon, he was ones of the creators of the first house of culture in province with his friends the painters from Marseille, Antoine Serra, Louis Toncini, Francois Diana. Pierre Ambrogiani was also friends with Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giano whom he met near his old studio in the Old Post.