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== Legacy == {{Quote box|align=right|width=50%|quote=I am the most well-known defender of homosexual rights in France. That is certain. Often they call me 'The Pope of Homosexuality.' That's because I am the author of ''The Keys of St. Peter'' and ''The Knights of Malta'', the most important books by a contemporary writer on the Catholic Church.|source=— Interview to the ''Gay Sunshine Journal'' (1979)}} After his death, the city of Capri dedicated a plaque to him which is mounted near Villa Lysis and the inscription of which reads: ''A Roger Peyrefitte autore de L'esule di Capri per aver esaltato e diffuso il mito, la cultura e la bellezza dell'isola nel mondo.'' — "For Roger Peyrefitte, author of ''L'Exile de Capri'', for having exalted and diffused the myth, the culture, and the beauty of this island in the world."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.capripress.com/article.php?cod=11|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030428160002/http://www.capripress.com/article.php?cod=11|title=capripress.com - Capri Press|archive-date=28 April 2003|date=April 28, 2003|website=capripress.com}}</ref> In a 2012 essay about the importance of [[public library|public libraries]], English actor and writer [[Stephen Fry]] mentions that Peyrefitte's novels ''[[The Exile of Capri]]'' and ''Special Friendships'' were "unforgettable, transformative books" for him.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/stephen-fry-the-library-taught-me-about-sex-8f72h6wnt2x | title=Stephen Fry: The Library Taught Me About Sex | work=[[The Times]] | date=January 28, 2012 | access-date=July 8, 2012 | author=Fry, Stephen}}</ref>
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