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Jean-Paul Charles Aymar Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced [ʒɑ̃ pol saʁtʁə]), was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy.

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  • Refusing to imprison this man for demonstrating during the 1960s, de Gaulle said, "One does not arrest Voltaire"
  • This author of "No Exit" said no to a Nobel Prize in 1964
  • His last play was "The Condemned of Altona", though "No Exit" might have been more appropriate
  • Your grasp of this French existentialist's "Being and Nothingness" may be closer to nothingness
  • This author of "No Exit" said no to a Nobel Prize in 1964
  • Some call this Paris-born man one of the leading minds of the last century
  • While prisoner of the Germans in WWII, this French existentialist wrote some of his greatest work
  • The plague of flies in his play "Les Mouches" may make you feel like there's "No Exit"
  • In 1952 a critic called this Fr. philosopher the "Decade's foremost theatrical confidence man"
  • This existentialist never finished the fourth volume of "Les Chemins de la Liberte", so it's a trilogy
  • This existentialist's play "The Flies", or "Les Mouches", debuted in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1943
  • This Frenchman later said that his 1945 lecture on existentialism & humanism was a mistake
  • Camus' attack on Stalinism in 1951's "L'Homme Revolte" strained his relationship with this other existentialist
  • In 1945 this existentialist founded "Les Temps Modernes", a monthly literary review that he also edited
  • This French existentialist found "No Exit" at age 39
  • In "No Exit" he wrote, "Hell is other people"

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