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 Edward Avery (1851 – 1913) was an English publisher of pornography. His notable publications include ''The Whippingham Papers'', including poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne, and a pirated edition of Sir Richard Burton's ''Kama Sutra''. ...

. He also published work of the

Decadent movement The Decadent movement (Fr. ''décadence'', “decay”) was a late-19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. The Decadent movement first flourished ...

such as ''

Monsieur Vénus ''Monsieur Vénus'' () is a novel written by the French symbolist and decadent writer Rachilde (née Marguerite Eymery). Initially published in 1884, it was her second novel and is considered her breakthrough work. Because of its highly erotic c ...

'' by

Rachilde Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (11 February 1860 – 4 April 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on t ...

. 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.

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