Auguste Brancart

August or Auguste Brancart (21 July 1851 - 1894?) was a Belgian publisher of pornographic literature, credited with the first publication of My Secret Life. He published translations of English pornography into French and vice versa for English publishers such as Edward Avery. He also published work of the Decadent movement such as Monsieur Vénus by Rachilde.^[1]

He was already under investigation by the police in 1885, 1886 and 1888 and moved to Antwerp in 1894: in 1895 another police dossier was compiled.^[2]

References

1. Sanchez, Nelly (Spring–Summer 2010). "Rachilde ou la genèse (possible) de Monsieur Vénus". Nineteenth-Century French Studies. University of Nebraska Press. 38 (3 & 4): 252–263. doi:10.1353/ncf.0.0142. ISSN 0146-7891. S2CID 190249895.
2. Hawthorne, Melanie (2001). Rachilde and French women's authorship: from decadence to modernism. U of Nebraska Press. pp. 244–245. ISBN 0-8032-2402-8.

• Bullough, Vern L. (2000). "Who wrote my secret life? An evaluation of possibilities and a tentative suggestion". Sexuality & Culture. 4 (1): 37–60. doi:10.1007/s12119-000-1011-y. S2CID 144830385.
• Green, Jonathon; Karolides, Nicholas J., eds. (2005). The encyclopedia of censorship. Facts on File library of world history. Infobase Publishing. pp. 69, 368. ISBN 0-8160-4464-3.
• Kearney, Patrick J. (1982). A history of erotic literature. Parragon. p. 126. ISBN 1-85813-198-7.
• Sutherland, John, ed. (2009). The Longman companion to Victorian fiction. Pearson Longman. p. 515. ISBN 978-1-4082-0390-3.
• Schick, İrvin Cemil (1999). The Erotic Margin: sexuality and spatiality in alteritist discourse. London: Verso. pp. 117–18. ISBN 1-85984-732-3.