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Christina Viola Dr. Law Ethics and Tragedy May 6, 2004 Jean-Paul Sartre Jean Paul Sartre was a French philosopher and existentialist writer. He was born on June 21, 1905 in Paris, France. At age eight, Jean-Paul started writing small plays inspired from the puppets his mother gave him. By the time Germany declared war in Europe in 1914, Sartre had written his first short story. His story was about a French private who captured the Kaiser, and to show that he was superior to the Germans, the Frenchman challenged the Kaiser to a fistfight and won. (Wyatt) "Sartre felt a sense of power and control when writing." (Ibid) In 1917, Sartre attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He graduated from the Ècole Normale Supérieure in 1929. That same year he served in the French military for eighteen months. From 1931 to 1945 he worked as a teacher and traveled in Egypt, Greece, and Italy. In 1933-34...

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