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Eventually, Defert himself revealed the cause of Foucault's death in print. By that time, Defert, the activist, had already set up AIDES, France's first organization dedicated to supporting and defending the rights of people infected with HIV.

Beauvoir was buried next to Sartre at the Cimetière du Montparnasse. Their joint grave can still be visited today, where it is always garlanded with fresh flowers and messages of love from the daily stream of visitors who come from all around the world to pay their respects.

He asked for a private meeting with Father Bernhard Welte, the priest. Although the content of their conversation is not known, it has been reported as relating to his relationship with the Catholic Church. Perhaps the rapidly fading philosopher needed to revisit his old faith to unburden himself of a guilty conscience. We will never know; it will never reveal the words passed between Heidegger and his confessor.

A few days before leaving for the spa town, Christiane broke the long silence between her and Marie Hegel by writing her a letter that included many pleasant memories of her and her brother's childhood.

In his philosophical works, Hegel describes a universe in which each action triggers an equal and opposite reaction. From this point on, it was almost as if his broken promise to Johanna had unleashed the anger of a conscious universe. Despite his upward climb into fame and success, a succession of misfortune and disasters hounded the ambitious philosopher until his dying day.

Two things fill the mind with ever-new and increasing admiration and reverence more often and steadily. One reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not need to search for them and merely conjecture them as though they were veiled in obscurity or the transcendent region beyond my horizon; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.