From http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV- 0004120233,FF.html {{<Begin>}} SARTRE, DE BEAUVOIR GET THEIR OWN PARIS SQUARE By Marilyn Augu st. Associated Press April 12, 2000 PARIS -- Jean-Paul Sartre, the thundering voice of France's postwar intelligentsia, is back where he'd like to be: Stirring controversy in the bookstalls of Paris. Revered as a versatile man of letters and reviled as a misguided political activist, Sartre is being remembered as a potent cocktail of literary talent, political blunders and philosophical thought. In recent weeks, the existentialist philosopher's controversial legacy has been dissected in a flurry of new books and articles in the major French media. On Tuesday, Mayor Jean Tiberi unveiled a plaque renaming the St.-Germain-des- Pres square on the Left Bank for Sartre and his lifelong companion, feminist Simone de Beauvoir. Despite her devotion to Sartre, Beauvoir also was known as novelist Nelson Algren's lover. For Jean-Marie Rouart, member of the prestigious Academie Francaise, Sartre is the stuff from which the 20th Century was made. "You can criticize Sartre. You can make a list of his mistakes. You can love him or hate him," Rouart wrote in the daily Le Figaro. "The only thing you can't do is ignore his importance." Sartre's place in the world of French letters can't be ignored but it has been conspicuously empty since the author of "Nausea" and "Being and Nothingness" died April 15, 1980. His funeral was a national event. Left Bank Paris, notably St.-Germain-des-Pres, where Sartre and de Beauvoir, who died in 1986, shared an apartment for years, entertaining friends and hammering out political theories, no longer exists as they knew it. Today their favorite haunts are overrun with rich tourists and fashion hounds. Nonetheless, this is where Paris authorities decided to honor Sartre, renaming it Place Sartre-Beauvoir, rather than a street near the National Library. "This intersection is where two great minds and two exceptional destinies met," Tiberi said. "It's where they cemented their union by reading each other's manuscripts penned the night before." Sylvie Lebon de Beauvoir, de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, said she had lobbied for years to have the square renamed. "They rejected all honors and titles during their lifetimes, but I think they'd be pleased to have such a special part of Paris named for them," she said. Despite all the media fuss, Sartre has all but disappeared from French high school curricula. 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