Sartre declined state honors during his life.

Evidence

27 Légion d’honneur and Académie française: John Gerassi, ‘The Second Death of Jean-Paul Sartre’, in W. L. McBride (ed.), Sartre’s Life, Times and Vision du Monde (New York & London: Garland, 1997), 217–23, this 218. Beauvoir was offered the Légion d’honneur and rejected it in 1982: Bair, Simone de Beauvoir, 606. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1147

Categorization

• XREF: Beauvoir’s similar rejection aligns with existentialist refusal of external recognition — the ‘bad faith’ of accepting honors. — connects to: Sartre and Beauvoir deliberately refused institutional honors to preserve their independence — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 52; Sartre refused the Nobel to preserve independence and protest Western bias — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 876; Sartre and Beauvoir refused institutional honors to protect intellectual autonomy — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 52

Broader Connections

• Sartre refused the Nobel to preserve independence and protest Western bias #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 876