Jean-Paul Aron

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. Life 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. Selected publications 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