He completed high school in Limoges; he was a journalist in Limoges in 1931.
From 1948, he was editor of the Le Populaire du Centre (People's Center), where he remained a columnist after 1952. His writer's library is preserved as the "Robert Margerit" cultural Centre.[1]
La Révolution, 3 volumes: L'Amour et le Temps, Les Autels de la Peur, Un Vent d’acier, Gallimard, 1963, Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
La Révolution, 4th volume: Les Hommes perdus, Gallimard, 1968; Phébus, 1989, ISBN9782859401313*El Tesoro de Morgan, Translator Manuel Pereira, Edhasa, 1997, ISBN978-84-350-0656-9