Speaking to the European broadcaster RTL in 2011, Hessel gave his thoughts on dying.
Hessel's diplomatic postings also included Vietnam in the 1950s and Algeria in the 1960s.
Whether Hessel inspired the global Occupy movement, as some have argued, is more open to debate.
Hessel cited Professor Barak Orbach of the University of Arizona law school who has studied price discrimination.
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"In France, in Europe, in the world, Stephane Hessel was the spirit of resistance incarnate, " he said.
As for his affair with Lucy Hessel, "it doesn't seem to have interfered with her marriage, " Mr. Brown says.
WSJ: Vuillard, His Mother and Lucy Hessel at New York's Jewish Museum
Hessel worked for years in drug development at Amgen, before leaving to explore more efficient and timely ways to produce drugs.
His parents Franz and Helen Hessel (born Grund) inspired two of the characters in Francois Truffaut's classic romantic film Jules And Jim.
"Stephane Hessel was a towering figure in the human rights world, " U.N.
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Hessel had succeeded in that goal.
As a French diplomat after World War II, Hessel joined a panel that included former U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt which wrote up the U.N.
Hessel "leaves us with the invaluable heritage of fighting for universal human values and his inalienable sense of liberty, " Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said Wednesday.
After surviving the war, Hessel worked as a French diplomat at the UN, where he was involved in compiling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Born in Germany, Hessel and his parents immigrated to France in 1924, where they settled into an avant-garde life, hanging out with artists like Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp.
Hessel's 32-page "Time for Outrage" sold millions of copies across Europe, tapping into a vein of popular discontent with capitalism and transforming him into an intellectual superstar within weeks.
In the book, Hessel urges young people to take inspiration from the anti-Nazi resistance to which he once belonged and rally against what he saw as the newest evil: The love of money.
For the last 40 years of his life, he also lived off and on with Jos Hessel, his primary dealer by the early 20th century, and Hessel's wife Lucy, a perpetual subject and Vuillard's lover.
WSJ: Vuillard, His Mother and Lucy Hessel at New York's Jewish Museum
Co-written with synthetic biology expert Andrew Hessel and global security expert Marc Goodman, the story examines the dawning of the era of personalized bio-weapons and the incredible threat these pose to national security.
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