Being and Time saw no complete French translation until 1985

Evidence

26 Reading Husserl and Heidegger too much: Sartre, War Diaries, 183–4. He returned to Heidegger during the war, reading it in German. Amazingly, no full French translation of Being and Time appeared until a privately printed one by Emmanuel Martineau in 1985, then a Gallimard publication by François Vezin in 1986. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1363

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapter on how French existentialists encountered Heidegger’s untranslated text, explaining their creative misreadings. — connects to: English speakers judged existentialism for decades with almost no translations available — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 553
• QUESTION: How did French thinkers engage with a major work untranslated for half a century, and how did that shape their interpretations?