He became editor at La Guerre sociale [fr] and La Vie socialiste and his socialist activism earned him the friendship of Jean Jaurès, Gustave Hervé and Albert Thomas, but also an arrest and imprisonment for six months (1906).

[1] Perceau was also passionate about satirical poetry, erotic writings and literature scholarly research.

His two most famous works reflect his passions: Enfer de la Bibliothèque nationale [fr] with Guillaume Apollinaire and Fernand Fleuret published in 1913 ; La Redoute des contrepèteries [fr] published in 1934.

He used facetious pseudonyms, sometimes shared with Fleuret, because he was stuck since 1906 by the police and to cover his licentious poetic publications and erotic books presentations from the corpus of the Grand Siecle or Lumières.

Early 1942, he joined the French Resistance and began a lawsuit against the anti-Semitic journal Je suis partout but died soon after.