Born in Polliat on 8 November 1929, Piroux grew up in a peasant family. After his schooling, he became a farmer and later an agricultural technician. He notably designed the coat of arms for Polliat in 1979.[2] After his retirement, he became a writer, publishing Les Prunes vertes.[3] In 2011, he followed up with Le parler franco-provençal, a book on the Bressan dialect.[4][5] In 2014, he published his first detective novel L'Affaire Reyssouzet-Machard.[6] In 2017, he made his first appearance in the literary dictionary at the University of Tours.[7]
Piroux died on 2 November 2024, at the age of 94.[8]
