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Jeannette Colombel

French philosopher (1919-2016)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ3176258 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jeannette Colombel (30 December 1919 – 12 April 2016) was a French philosopher.

Publications

1974: Les murs de l'école, Christian Bourgois éditeur.

1980: Brumes de mémoire, Stock.

1981: Sartre ou le parti de vivre, Grasset.

1985: Sartre: un homme en situation, Tome I, Hachette.

1986: Sartre: une œuvre aux mille têtes, Tome II, Hachette.

1990: Les amants de l'ombre, Flammarion.

1994: Michel Foucault, la clarté ou la mort, Odile Jacob.

1997: La nostalgie de l'espérance, Stock.

2000: Jean-Paul Sartre, un homme en situation, LGF.

2000: Lettre à Mathilde sur Jean-Paul Sartre, LGF, Le Livre de poche.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jeannette Colombel” as french philosopher (1919-2016). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 2016, 1974, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1919-12-30. The account is most persuasive where Jeannette, Colombel and French can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as french philosopher (1919-2016). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3176258. VIAF identifies the subject as 71389165. The Library of Congress control number is n81094002. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1919, 2016, 1974 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jeannette Colombel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.