How to pronounce “auguste” in English

You can ask the guy over there in the corner Auguste Piccard was a physicist.

Okay. Um, Augusten Burroughs is the Running with Scissors guy, as you may or may not know. I did not design that cover, but

finally, at a conference, presented the findings from a patient-- Auguste Deter-- that he'd been, basically, obsessed with for a number of years.

I was sending around the manuscript to get a, a quote, a blurb from Augusten Burroughs, who I don't know, but who I, who I knew some people in common and I sent him the manuscript