Louis Perceau


Louis Perceau was a 20th-century French polygraph. He used several pseudonyms including Helpey bibliographe poitevin, Dr. Ludovico Hernandez, Alexandre de Vérineau, Un vieux journaliste, Radeville et Deschamps, marquis Boniface de Richequeue, sometimes jointly with Fernand Fleuret.

Career

First a tailor, Louis Perceau was in Paris from 1901. He became editor at ' and La Vie socialiste and his socialist activism earned him the friendship of Jean Jaurès, Gustave Hervé and Albert Thomas, but also an arrest and imprisonment for six months. He then actively participated in reforming the Socialist Party in 1920.
Perceau was also passionate about satirical poetry, erotic writings and literature scholarly research. His two most famous works reflect his passions:
' with Guillaume Apollinaire and Fernand Fleuret published in 1913 ; published in 1934.
He used facetious pseudonyms, sometimes shared with Fleuret, because he was stuck since 1906 by the police and to cover his licentious poetic publications and erotic books presentations from the corpus of the Grand Siecle or Lumières. He secretly collaborated as editorial advisor with Maurice Duflou and probably Rene Bonnel.
Early 1942, he joined the French Resistance and began a lawsuit against the anti-Semitic journal Je suis partout but died soon after.
His ashes are kept in the .

Main works