Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Amụrụ na Châteaubriant, Loire-Inférieure (ugbu a Loire-Atlantique), France, Chaplais gụrụ akwụkwọ na Collège Saint-Sauveur na Redon na Mahadum nke Rennes, ebe ọ mụrụ Iwu na Classics, na ebumnuche nke ịghọ onye ọka iwu agụmakwụkwọ. Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ gbochiri agụmakwụkwọ ya, bụ nke o jere ozi na ndị agha France ruo mgbe a tọhapụrụ ya.
Nkwụsị Agha nke 1940. Ndị Gestapo jidere Chaplais, bụ́ onye so n'òtù ndị France na-emegide ọchịchị Nazi, ma kpọga ya Buchenwald. Maka ọrụ ya n'oge agha ọ natara "Médaille de la Résistance".