Reminiscences on Existentialism

“At that very moment, tell you what, you nip the guy in the bud, saying “keep quiet buddy, your book is going to mess up the European civilization”; don’t speak in public till we come tell you how bad your book is for all of us. I mean you are going to make the règne of The Reign of Terror worse than envisaged this time around. That is the matter we are trying to settle here. We will choose a committee for stuff like yours and I will répondre when we come back from Versailles!”

If Michel Foucault or who did you have around at that time had told JP Sartre exactly that then the French would have cut her coasts accordingly to size without suffering Macrons Waterloo at Niamey.