Sartre teaches at the Lycée Condorcet under occupation after the POW camp
In 1941, after release from a POW camp, Jean-Paul Sartre took up teaching at the Lycée Condorcet in occupied Paris, an official post inside a Vichy-and-German school order, not a maquis assignment. Normalising a lycée timetable under occupation is the modest democratic cost. In the causal graph this event weakens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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In 1941, after release from a POW camp, Jean-Paul Sartre took up teaching at the Lycée Condorcet in occupied Paris, an official post inside a Vichy-and-German school order, not a maquis assignment. Normalising a lycée timetable under occupation is the modest democratic cost. Writing Being and Nothingness in the same years is another row.
Context
Many teachers returned. Some resisted, some did not, some mixed. Jewish colleagues had been purged from the education service. Sharing a lycée with other teachers does not erase his named post.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Why it matters
Democratic-normalisation path of modest weight, medium confidence. Les Mouches remains an improving neighbour, not a detergent.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Jean-Paul Sartre
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.24 · verified
He took a Paris lycée post in the occupied zone after Stalag. Vichy and German authorities set the school frame; he was not a minister.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactSartre teaches at the Lycée Condorcet under occupation after the POW camp
- weakensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 October 1941 · verified
Returning to official teaching under occupation is a democratic-resilience weakening path of modest weight: civic life as if normal.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.11 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.BnF data — Jean-Paul SartreBibliothèque nationale de France · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Jean-Paul SartreEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
BnF data at https://data.bnf.fr/en/11923581/jean-paul_sartre/ (opens in a new tab) is the official bibliographic career frame including the lycée years. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Sartre (opens in a new tab) independently records POW captivity and return to teaching in occupied Paris.
Established: Sartre taught at Condorcet under occupation after 1941 release. Not established: a unique collaborationist article he signed as policy. Contribution is recorded as He took a Paris lycée post in the occupied zone after Stalag. Vichy and German authorities set the school frame; he was not a minister. The impact note is Returning to official teaching under occupation is a democratic-resilience weakening path of modest weight: civic life as if normal. The dated heading stays Sartre teaches at the Lycée Condorcet under occupation after the POW camp on 1941-10-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.
The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Condorcet 1941 is not Les Mouches 1943 as a duplicate. Mixed effects of Sartre teaches at the Lycée Condorcet under occupation after the POW camp are separate paths.
Shared responsibility is part of Sartre teaches at the Lycée Condorcet under occupation after the POW camp. Naming Jean-Paul Sartre does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1941-10-01 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.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorJean-Paul Sartre
- contributed toFactSartre teaches at the Lycée Condorcet under occupation after the POW camp
- weakensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Sartre teaches at the Lycée Condorcet under occupation after the POW camp. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sartre-condorcet-1941
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