French philosopher, novelist and playwright, co-founder of Les Temps modernes, life partner of Simone de Beauvoir, and the central figure of French existentialism whose 1952 dispute with Albert Camus over The Rebel ended their friendship.
Met · 1943–1952
Camus and Sartre first met in occupied Paris in 1943, at the June opening of Sartre's play The Flies. They became close through the Resistance and post-Liberation Left Bank years, appeared together in the founding circle around Les Temps modernes, and broke publicly in 1952 after a hostile review of The Rebel in the journal. The friendship ended and was never repaired; Camus died in 1960 with the break unresolved.
Clashed with · 1945–1948
The dispute begins with the passage in Sartre's essay in Les Temps modernes no. 3 (December 1945) asserting that Céline had supported Nazi political positions because he had been paid to do so. Céline learned of the passage in Denmark and replied in late 1947 with the short pamphlet À l'agité du bocal, published by Albert Paraz in 1948 in Le Gala des vaches and in Pierre Lanauve de Tartas's separate edition.
Clashed with · 1957
Sartre wrote both the scenario and the dialogue for Les Sorcières de Salem (1957), Raymond Rouleau's film of Miller's play The Crucible, with Yves Montand and Simone Signoret as the Proctors; the Cinémathèque française credits him as scénariste and dialoguiste. Sartre rewrote the Salem hysteria as a class conflict, making the accused poor and the accusers propertied, and cut the Reverend Hale's reasoned turn against the court. Miller rejected the reading in print: the screenplay, he wrote in Timebends, seemed to him to toss an arbitrary Marxist mesh over the story that led to a few absurdities. This is a documented public disagreement over a single work, not a personal quarrel — the Atlas has no evidence that the two men ever met.
Sartre was buried in Montparnasse cemetery in 1980; Beauvoir was buried in the same grave six years later.
Visit the place
The Flore was Sartre and Beauvoir's working café for years — warm when their own rooms were not, and close enough to Saint-Germain-des-Prés to serve as an office.
Visit the place
One of the two cafés on the junction now named for Sartre and Beauvoir, and part of the pair's daily working geography in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Visit the placeThe square beside Saint-Germain-des-Prés, renamed for Sartre and Beauvoir together in 2000 — the junction of the two cafés the pair used as offices for decades.
Visit the placeSartre studied at the École normale supérieure in the 1920s and prepared for the agrégation in philosophy there — failing at the first attempt, then placing first in 1929.
Visit the placeBuried at · 1980
Sartre was buried in Montparnasse cemetery in 1980; Beauvoir was buried in the same grave six years later.
Frequented
The Flore was Sartre and Beauvoir's working café for years — warm when their own rooms were not, and close enough to Saint-Germain-des-Prés to serve as an office.
Frequented
One of the two cafés on the junction now named for Sartre and Beauvoir, and part of the pair's daily working geography in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Frequented
The square beside Saint-Germain-des-Prés, renamed for Sartre and Beauvoir together in 2000 — the junction of the two cafés the pair used as offices for decades.
Studied at
Sartre studied at the École normale supérieure in the 1920s and prepared for the agrégation in philosophy there — failing at the first attempt, then placing first in 1929.
Met · 1943–1952
Camus and Sartre first met in occupied Paris in 1943, at the June opening of Sartre's play The Flies. They became close through the Resistance and post-Liberation Left Bank years, appeared together in the founding circle around Les Temps modernes, and broke publicly in 1952 after a hostile review of The Rebel in the journal. The friendship ended and was never repaired; Camus died in 1960 with the break unresolved.
Clashed with · 1945–1948
The dispute begins with the passage in Sartre's essay in Les Temps modernes no. 3 (December 1945) asserting that Céline had supported Nazi political positions because he had been paid to do so. Céline learned of the passage in Denmark and replied in late 1947 with the short pamphlet À l'agité du bocal, published by Albert Paraz in 1948 in Le Gala des vaches and in Pierre Lanauve de Tartas's separate edition.
Clashed with · 1957
Sartre wrote both the scenario and the dialogue for Les Sorcières de Salem (1957), Raymond Rouleau's film of Miller's play The Crucible, with Yves Montand and Simone Signoret as the Proctors; the Cinémathèque française credits him as scénariste and dialoguiste. Sartre rewrote the Salem hysteria as a class conflict, making the accused poor and the accusers propertied, and cut the Reverend Hale's reasoned turn against the court. Miller rejected the reading in print: the screenplay, he wrote in Timebends, seemed to him to toss an arbitrary Marxist mesh over the story that led to a few absurdities. This is a documented public disagreement over a single work, not a personal quarrel — the Atlas has no evidence that the two men ever met.