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Roger-Pol Droit

French philosopher

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ938297 ↗
Source-derived summary

Roger-Pol Droit (born 1949) is a French academic and philosopher.

References

External links

Roger-Pol Droit's official website (in French)

Further reading

Roger-Pol Droit, Michel Foucault on the Role of Prisons, The New York Times, 5 August 1975. Translated by Leonard Mayhew. Originally appeared in Paris Match.

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The public source identifies “Roger-Pol Droit” as french philosopher. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Roger-Pol, Droit and French.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-02-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Roger-Pol, Droit and French providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q938297. VIAF identifies the subject as 7421500. The Library of Congress control number is nr89010022. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949 and 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roger-Pol Droit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.