Philippe was born in the French Lahille southeast, in the region of Toulouse. He began his career in the book world today to be responsible for a publishing group.
His meeting in Montreal in 2004 with Serge Mongeau, one of the leading figures of Voluntary Simplicity movement, led to the diffusion of his works in France.
Having grown up in the field, voluntary simplicity was always for him (as it had been for their parents) a philosophy of life and a value applied to daily life. As it is not a nostalgic nor will search for a way of life autarchic, he is convinced that, in our society of waste and overconsumption, the "decrecentistas" have a long journey ahead.