Education
Born into a wealthy family in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Tardon attended at the Lycee Schoelcher in Fort-de-France and studied law and history in France.
Born into a wealthy family in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Tardon attended at the Lycee Schoelcher in Fort-de-France and studied law and history in France.
He was the father of screenwriter Bruno Tardon. He was posthumously awarded the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes in 1966 for his complete body of work. At the outbreak of World World War II he served briefly in the French army and later in the resistance in southern France.
After the war, he worked in Paris as a journalist, and subsequently worked for the Ministry of Information, in Madagascar, Dakar and Guadeloupe.
His first published book was a collection of stories, Bleu des Isles. lieutenant was followed by the novels Starkenfirst (1947), which deals with the slave trade, Louisiana Caldeira (1948), and Christ aux poing(1950).
In 1951 he published the biography Toussaint Louverture, le Napoléon noir, and in 1963 a study of race entitled Noirs et blancs. Tardon died in Paris in 1967.