Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris on 21 June 1905 and was raised by his mother and his maternal grandfather, Charles Schweitzer. A student at the École normale supérieure, he passed the agrégation in philosophy in first place in 1929. A teacher at the lycée in Le Havre, he studied phenomenology in Berlin in 1933 and 1934. Mobilised in 1939, he was taken prisoner in 1940 and released the following year. In 1945, he founded the journal Modern Times. In 1964 he refused the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Paris on 15 April 1980.

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