Simone Jollivet et Jean-Paul Sartre, une histoire laissée pour conte ou La Petite Fille aux personnages

Simone Jollivet, a girl with whom Sartre became infatuated when he was twenty years old, wrote a two-page text in 1926-1927 entitled “La petite fille aux personnages.” In it we find, in the form of a short story, Sartre meeting Simone Jollivet, the hopes she had for this relationship, and its end, brought about by the girl’s disenchantment; the man was overly possessive: “But one day, what he played was bad and out of tune [...], so the little girl bade him farewell.”