 After finishing school in 1893 at the Athénée de Luxembourg, Émile Reuter studied law in Strasbourg, Nancy and Paris from 1894 to 1898 and then registered at the bar in Luxembourg.In 1903 he became president of the "Association populaire catholique" and in 1911 was elected to the Chamber of Deputies.In 1914 he was a founding member of the Party of the Right.