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Name
  
Jean-Paul Aron


Role
  
Writer

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Died
  
August 20, 1988, Paris, France

Books
  
The Office, The Art of Eating in France: Manners and Menus in the Nineteenth Century

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Jean-Paul Aron (27 May 1925 - 20 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984.

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Aron was born in Strasbourg. He was a close friend of Michel Foucault in the early 1950s, before a falling out over a lover. He was, like Foucault, an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS, and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the disease. During his lifetime, he published several historical works that examined middle-class social practices. He is buried at 6, rue du Repos in Paris.

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Novels and plays

  • La Retenue (novel) Grasset, 1962
  • Point mort (novel) Grasset, 1964
  • Le Bureau (play), 1970
  • Fleurets mouchetés (play), 1970
  • Les Voisines (play), 1980
  • Essays

  • Essai sur la sensibilité alimentaire à Paris au XIXe siècle, Armand Colin, 1967
  • Philosophie zoologique, by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (presentation by Jean-Paul Aron), 10/18, 1968
  • Essai d'épistémologie biologique, Christian Bourgois, 1969
  • Anthropologie du conscrit français (with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Paul Dumont), Mouton, 1972
  • Le Mangeur du XIXe siècle, Laffont, 1973
  • Qu’est-ce que la culture française?, Denoël-Gonthier, 1975
  • Le Pénis et la démoralisation de l’Occident (with Roger Kempf), Grasset, 1978
  • Misérable et glorieuse, la femme du XIXe siècle (animated and presented by Jean-Paul Aron), Fayard, 1980
  • References

    Jean-Paul Aron Wikipedia


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