Did Michel Foucault really say 'The sovereign is he who decides on the exception.'?

Michel Foucault:

The sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976

Date: 1976

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