Léon de Berluc-Pérussis

The Peruzzi family themselves came from Lombardy and established themselves in Forcalquier, the former capital city of Haute-Provence.

He studied law in Aix-en-Provence and enrolled himself into the bar at the Court of Appeal in 1856.

After having been a Secretary and Vice President of the Conference of Lawyers, he left the law profession to spend his time between Aix-en-Provence and his fatherland Porchères, near Forcalquier, where he occupied himself day after day with the research of the area's local history, as well as with poetry and agriculture.

He was a fervent supporter of decentralization and the social reforms popularized by Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play.

He was a promoter of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Petrarch in Avignon in 1874, the President of the Literary Festival of Our-Lady of Provence in Forcalquier in 1875, Major of Félibrige in 1876, Regional Director of the Institute of Provinces and the Honorary President of the French Scientific Congress in Nice in 1878.