![]() ‘We were,’ remembered the fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, ‘to provide the postwar era with its ideology.’ Readers looked to Sartre and Camus to articulate what that new world might look like. Europe had been immolated, but the ashes left by war created the space to imagine a new world. ![]() As the city began to rebuild, Sartre and Camus gave voice to the mood of the day. Newspapers reported on their daily movements: Sartre holed up at Les Deux Magots, Camus the peripatetic of Paris. ‘How we loved you then,’ Sartre later wrote. In those days, when the lights of the city were slowly turning back on, Camus was Sartre’s closest friend. They met in Paris during the Occupation and grew closer after the Second World War. ![]() ![]() Jean-Paul Sartre, from the upper reaches of French society, was never mistaken for a handsome man. Albert Camus was French Algerian, a pied-noir born into poverty who effortlessly charmed with his Bogart-esque features. ![]()
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