Becoming FoucaultThough Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life. Even Foucaults biographers have neglected this period, preferring instead to start the story when the future philosopher arrives in Paris. Becoming Foucault is a historical reconstruction of the world in which Foucault grew up: the small city of Poitiers, France, from the 1920s until the end of the Second World War. Beyond