Career
Éric Charden was born in Haïphong, Vietnam, during World World War World War II He is from a French father (who was a port engineer in France and overseas) and a Tibetan mother. He moved to France (Marseille) in 1950 with his mother (his father returned to France in 1954) and graduated with a Baccalauréat from Higher Education Commission Paris in 1960.