# Temps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus

Date: 1952

## The fact

In 1952 Les Temps modernes published the attack on Albert Camus’s L’Homme révolté and [Sartre](/people/jean-paul-sartre)’s own reply that ended the friendship as a public fact, a cohesion cost in the French intellectual left. Camus had refused historical murder as a method. Sartre answered as history’s prosecutor. A review can split a public more than a parliament.

## Context

The revolt-versus-revolution quarrel was already philosophical. Jeanson’s piece and Sartre’s letter shared the issue. Sharing does not erase Sartre’s closing of the door. Aron had gone another way earlier. Do not treat later Camus monuments as this 1952 number.

Shared responsibility is part of Temps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus. Naming Jean-Paul Sartre does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1952-08-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Gallimard at https://www.gallimard.fr/ is the official publisher of both men’s books and of the review’s home. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Sartre independently records the Camus break in the early 1950s file.

Official or archival record: Éditions Gallimard — portal (https://www.gallimard.fr/; Éditions Gallimard).

## Significance

Cohesion path of modest-to-mid weight. High confidence on the 1952 public rupture.

## What is established and what is not

Established: TM and Sartre publicly broke with Camus in 1952. Not established: that the break uniquely caused later left violence. Contribution is recorded as He commissioned and signed the public break over L’Homme révolté. Francis Jeanson wrote the review; Sartre’s reply closed the friendship as a public war. The impact note is A famous friendship smashed in a review is a [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) path: the left public taught to choose camps over argument. The dated heading stays Temps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus on 1952-08-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Camus rupture is not Saint Genet as a 1952 twin. Mixed effects of Temps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus are separate paths.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Jean-Paul Sartre: https://factrail.ai/people/jean-paul-sartre

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Sartre
- https://www.gallimard.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sartre-camus-1952