Anne CĂ©cile Desclos (23 September 1907 â 27 April 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pen names Dominique Aury and Pauline RĂ©age. She is best known for her erotic novel Story of O (1954). Born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingual family, Desclos began reading in French and English at an early age. After completing her studies at the Sorbonne, she worked as a journalist until 1946 when she joined Gallimard Publishers as the editoriâŠ
