Georges (Joseph) Grassal
Georges (Joseph) Grassal. Born in Nantes on October 27, 1867, and died in Paris on March 5, 1905. His real name is Georges Grassal of Choffat, according to Hubert June's article, "Made Hugues Rebell", published in the literary Magazine No. 31 July-August 1969. The catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France accurate: "Georges Grassal wrote under the pseudonym Hugues Rebell. He also used (with Hector France and Charles Carrington), the collective pseudonym Jean de Villiot.
He wrote against Christianity and professed paganism while remaining a Catholic. An exponent of Friedrich Nietzsche, he was associated with the right-wing nationalist group Action Française.
Rebell wrote a number of pornographic works under the group pseudonym "Jean de Villiot", a prolific contributor to early 20th century French spanking literature, published by Charles Carrington.
Rebell is often dismissed as a failed author of pornography, remembered for only one title, Les nuits chaudes du Cap Français (1902), which won the Prix Nocturne in 1966. He was also a poet, whose Les Chants de la pluie et du soleil, dedicated to his friend René Boylesve, inspired André Gide in Les Nourritures Terrestres. He was also known as a polemicist[Note 1] of royalty because of his Union des trois aristocraties (1894), which treated the three aristocracies based on family name, money, and talent.
He wrote articles for the journals La Cocarde and Le Soleil, which were included in a collection of writings published in 1994 under the title De mon balcon. He wrote a defense of Oscar Wilde in the August issue of the literary magazine Mercure de France in 1895.
Notes
- ↑ contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position. Polemics are thus seen in arguments on controversial topics.
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