Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i tana mahi ki te French Navy hei Quartermaster i Indochina me French Algeria, i mahi a Denard hei pirihimana koroni i Morocco mai i te 1952 ki te 1957. I mahi ia hei kaiwhakaatu mō ngā mīhini horoi i Paris. I te tau 1954, i whakawakia ia mo te whakaekenga patu i te Pirimia Pierre Mendès-France, he mema maui o te Rōpū Radical-Socialist i whakawhitiwhiti korero mo te mutunga o te Pakanga o Indochina me te wehenga mai i Morocco, Tunisia me Algeria, a 14 marama i te whare herehere. He anti-communist kaha, ka uru a Denard ki nga pakanga anti-colonialist maha, i te wa ano mo ia ano mo te kawanatanga o Parani. I te wa i tukuna mai ai ia i te whare herehere, i mahi ia mo nga ratonga muna French i te wa o te
te pakanga i Algeria.