Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Philippe ya tafi makarantar sakandare a Port-au-Prince kuma ya kammala karatunsa a Paris inda ya yi karatun lauya. Yayin da yake can, ya zama sananne ga Valéry Larbaud, wanda ya shirya a buga wasu waƙoƙinsa a cikin "La revue européenne", wata mujallar adabi ta wata-wata da aka buga daga 1923 zuwa 1931. Da ya dawo Haiti, ya fara aikinsa a matsayin babban sakatare a Ma'aikatar Ayyukan Jama'a. Kamar yawancin masu ilimi na Haiti, ya yi adawa da mamayar Amurka a Haiti
, wanda aka kafa a 1915.