He was raised as a Protestant in a region with an unusual religious make-up, living alongside both Royalist Catholic "chouans" from the Vendée and dissidents from "the little church" which had refused the authority of the 1801 Concordat signed by Napoleon and Pope Pius VII.
He described in his stories his love for the common people, "les cherche-pain" (bread seekers) in his home region of the Gâtine at the beginning of the 20th century.
In 2012, Pérochon's 1925 science fiction novel Les Hommes Frénétiques was translated by Brian Stableford as The Frenetic People.
In 1935, Pérochon's daughter, Simone, married Delphin Debenest, who was also involved in the Resistance during World War II.
A soldier in 1940, this intelligence agent in the Franco-Belgian Resistance was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Buchenwald and then to Kommando in Holzen from which he succeeded in escaping.
Under the High Patronage of the Minister of National Education and Culture, numerous speeches were given, including one by Mr. Leblond-Zola, grandson of Émile Zola.