# Sartre teaches at the Lycée Condorcet under occupation after the POW camp

Date: 1941

## The fact

In 1941, after release from a POW camp, [Jean-Paul Sartre](/people/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. Do not treat later Resistance claims as this 1941 appointment.

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

## Evidence and sources

BnF data at https://data.bnf.fr/en/11923581/jean-paul_sartre/ is the official bibliographic career frame including the lycée years. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Sartre independently records POW captivity and return to teaching in occupied Paris.

Official or archival record: BnF data — Jean-Paul Sartre (https://data.bnf.fr/en/11923581/jean-paul_sartre/; Bibliothèque nationale de France).

## Significance

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.

## What is established and what is not

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](/drivers/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. 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.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is democratic-resilience. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://data.bnf.fr/en/11923581/jean-paul_sartre/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Sartre

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sartre-condorcet-1941