That's a great book she's holding though. Sartre might not have made a lasting contribution to philosophy but he was an incredibly diverse writer. And unlike the political opportunist Martin Heidegger he had the courage of his convictions, enough to galvanize a generation.
Convictions like justifying Soviet show trials or denying Stalinism for decades and celebrating Mao's mass murders? Or supporting the murder of the Israeli athletes in Munich?
Sartre was the fairhaired boy of the infamously doctrinaire PCF for decades. He did nothing for the Resistance while Camus, Desnos, Char and others were actually risking their lives.
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