[5] She was the daughter of Françoise Thérèse Céline Judicis and Georges Johnston, a wealthy local land-owner.

[6] She went to Paris after the war of 1870, and she made her literary debut in the magazine Revue des deux Mondes, where many of her novels were serialised.

In Paris, she met Arsène Houssaye, who, after having read her Marco manuscript interceded on her behalf with the magazine editor François Buloz.

[6] Peyrebrune published fourteen works in the 1880s with the firms Calmann-Lévy, Charpentier, Dentu, Ollendorff, and Plon.

[5] For many years, she served as on the all female jury for the Prix Fémina literary prize.