Born in Trappes, France. After having sought his fortune in various countries, in particular in Guyana and America, Perret became a journalist, then a novellist. His first novel Roucou was published in 1936, and was followed by Ernest le rebelle / Ernest the Rebel in 1937. Mobilized into the French army in 1939, he spent the war in the infantry, then in the underground -- for which he received a military decoration. He was captured by the Germans, escaped and joined a maquis unit in Ain. After the war, he again took up his trade as a man of letters. He remembered his military experience in Le Caporal épinglé / The Elusive Corporal (1947) and let his liveliness and imagination loose in fantastic accounts or news-like stories such as Sous le vent / Under the Wind (1944), Le vent dans les voiles / The Wind in the Veils (1948), La bête mahousse / The Animal Mahousse (1951), or lampoons like Bátons dans les roues / Sticks in the Wheels (1953), Salade de saison / Seasonal Salad (1957) and Le vilain temps / Unpleasant Time (1963). In film, his novel Ernest le rebelle was adapted to the screen in 1938. His novels and short story Le Caporal épinglé, Les insulaires and Jean-Sans-Terre also received screen/TV adaptations.  Nominated for Writing (Motion Picture Story) 1955: THE SHEEP HAS 5 LEGS (w. Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Henri Verneuil & Raoul Ploquin) 1 nomination