Education
Collège Stanislas de Paris.
Collège Stanislas de Paris.
An account of his life was published by Paul Margueritte as Mon père (1884. Enlarged ed, 1897). The names of the two brothers are generally associated, on account of their collaboration. Paul Margueritte, who has given a picture of his home in Algiers in Le Jardin du passé (1895), was sent to the Prytanée National Militaire for the sons of officers.
In 1880, he became a clerk to the minister of public instruction.
His novel Louisiana Garçonne (1922) was considered so shocking it caused the author to lose his Légion d"honneur.