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Gustave Jules Brocher (30 June 1850 – 5 October 1931) was a French anarchist writer, translator and teacher.

He was born in Delle, France to Henri Brocher and Julie Brocher (nee Bridel). His father was a Fourierist but Brocher studied theology in Geneva and Strasbourg and became a priest. In 1873 he moved to work in London but after three years he left the church and became a teacher and a socialist.

From 1880 to 1881 he edited the newspaper Le Travail with Paul Brousse. Brocher took a leading role in organising the 1881 International Anarchist Conference serving as the secretary of the organising committee and edited the multilingual congress newspaper Le Bulletin du Congrès de Londres. At the congress he met Victorine Rouchy Malenfant, who he married in 1884. Together they adopted five children orphaned during the Paris Commune.

From 1885-1887

In 1885 he joined the Socialist League. In 1892 he moved to Lausanne in Switzerland where he and Victorine ran a bookstore.

From 1911 to 1914 he taught in Fiume

From 1918 until his death in 1931 he was editor of La Libre Pensée.

In 1921 Victorine died