Jean-Paul Sartre famously declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, saying a writer should not allow themselves to be turned into an institution. His partner Simone de Beauvoir is rendered in Chinese as 波伏娃 (Bōfúwá).
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萨 (sà) approximates 'Sa-' and 特 (tè) approximates '-rtre' (the French final r-cluster gets flattened to a single syllable). The same 特 appears in many Western names ending in -t or -rt (e.g. 特朗普 Trump).
