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    "title": "Jean-Paul Sartre",
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    "summary": "Sartre describes consciousness as a freedom that never begins from nowhere: it chooses within a body, a history and a social situation. Without a ready-made human essence, every act discloses values and carries responsibility for the world it helps to make.",
    "body": "Sartre died in Paris on 15 April 1980.",
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        "distance": "46–121 years ago",
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        "detail": "French existentialism and committed literature",
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            "French existentialism and committed literature"
        ]
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        "year": 1980,
        "display": "1980 CE",
        "reason": "Sartre died in Paris on 15 April 1980."
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            "name": "Paris",
            "period": "1905-1980, intermittently",
            "description": "Birthplace, principal public and writing setting, and place of death.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://expositions.bnf.fr/sartre/reperes/chrono.htm"
        },
        {
            "name": "Le Havre",
            "period": "1931-1936",
            "description": "Teaching post during the development of Sartre's early philosophical and literary work.",
            "confidence": "B",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Berlin",
            "period": "1933-1934",
            "description": "Study of phenomenology during a leave from teaching.",
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            "source_url": "https://expositions.bnf.fr/sartre/reperes/chrono.htm"
        },
        {
            "name": "Trier prisoner-of-war camp",
            "period": "1940-1941",
            "description": "Sartre was held at the Trier camp, where he staged his first theatrical work at Christmas.",
            "confidence": "A",
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