Sartre’s final meeting with Aron refused their old camaraderie

Evidence

Very late in life, during an event in aid of refugees from Vietnam in the late 1970s, Sartre and Aron met and shook hands while photographers clicked away, excited at capturing what they took to be a major reconciliation. By this time, however, Sartre was ill and rather dazed, losing his vision and much of his hearing. Either because of this, or as a deliberate snub, Sartre did not reply in kind when Aron greeted him with their old term of endearment, ‘Bonjour, mon petit camarade.’ He responded only, ‘Bonjour.’ — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 841

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Aron declined a youthful obituary pact with Sartre as time had changed — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 979; The French academic epistemology of Kant left Sartre, Beauvoir, and Aron dissatisfied — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 15

Broader Connections

• Aron declined a youthful obituary pact with Sartre as time had changed #corroborates (0.95) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 979