Yes, that's it -- he was a military man. That's how he had a child who was not French. Not even White for that matter. Despite his fastidious nature and belief in regulations, he did step out of his nature now and then. It was perhaps the excess of systems that the military offered. Even for such a precise man, it was overwhelming. And a drink or two, or eight, was needed to express his pent-up emotions. He missed his wife after all.