Career
Sevez was present at the German surrender in Reims, and signed the German Instrument of Surrender as the official witness. During early part of the Second World War, he fought in Belgium. He fought in the Tunisian campaign as a brigadier General in 1942, and took command of the 4th Moroccan Mountain Division in September 1943, participating in the Italian campaign as well as the liberation of Alsace in 1944.
In October 1944, he joined General de Monsabert as a commander of the French Army reserve destined to occupy Germany.
He died following a hunting accident near Offenburg, hit by another hunter"s bullet that had ricocheted off the thick skin of a wild boar. He was buried temporarily in a chapel in Baden-Baden.