[5] From 1922 to 1946,[note 1] he served as secretary general of the International Association of Geodesy and from 1922 to 1945 as 1st editor-in-chief of the Bulletin Géodésique.

[8] Perrier wrote the preface to Tardi's 1934 Traité de Géodésie,[9] and the two were also editors of the Bibliographie Géodesique Internationale.

[10][11] Born in Montpellier on 28 October 1872, he was christened Antoine François Jacques Justin Georges Perrier.

[12][13] In 1901, while a member of the service, he was made a part of the French party sent to the equator in South America for remeasurements of results from an 18th-century expedition.

During the interwar period and into the course of World War II, Perrier was involved with multiple roles in geodesy organizations.