Adrien Goybet was born in 1922, the son of Admiral Pierre Goybet

Pierre Goybet

Pierre Goybet was born in 1887, the third son of General Mariano Goybet.He took part in the Battle of Verdun.He commanded the cruiser Primauguet and landed at Aruba in the Antilles in April 1940 to protect Standard and Shell Petroleum installations against attacks by the Germans.On June 25, 1940,...

 and grandson of General Mariano Goybet

Mariano Goybet

Mariano Francisco Julio Goybet was a French Army general that held several senior commands in World War I.-An old Savoy family:...

. He served as chef de bataillon in the Fusiliers Marins. He trained with British Force 136, the Southeast Asian branch of the Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive

The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...

, the British military espionage and covert action force.

In 1945, he parachuted into Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

, at that time occupied by the Japanese. He prepared the landing of the troops of General Leclerc. He served in the Indo-Chinese Campaign (1951-1954) as an intelligence officer, and in the Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

n campaign (1958-1961).

He was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He died in 1995.