Journalist, author, he was the director of France soir" (1961-1970). His father Georges Gombault (born Joseph Weiskopf, Paris 12 August 1881-30 août 1970, Évian) was also a journalist, a friend of
Georges Clemenceau and a co-founder of the French Human Rights Org, la Ligue des droits de l'Homme in 1898.