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Daniel Defert later recalled discussing The History of the Sexuality with Foucault on his deathbed at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière. Defert claimed that he told his lover that "If it turns out to be AIDS, your last books are just like Les fleurs du mal, because, you know, Baudelaire wrote Les fleurs du mal about his own sexual life and syphilis." In turn, Foucault laughed and replied, "Why not?"
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