English language Philosophy is read and debated, French Philosophy is shouted and satired.
As a philosopher, I've always have had a disgust of 20th century French Philosophy, its the "Oh No, who's reading this and planning genocide in the third world Phenomena".
I liked the enlightenment thinkers up till the French Revolution. Tocqueville was great. Du Picq the last giant. For the longest time I refused to accept or recognize any 20th century philosophers, but can sorta now bring Sartre in the fold of philosophy. It's dead to me after that, Nothing by Nietzschean, Nazis, Marxists, and Fruedians chasing one another around in a madhouse with a peacock feather tickling one another. Death and socialism, more socialism, more death is the end result.
Luckily, its all in French, so it can't hurt anyone. I have some book called Malice, a translation from a nobody in the corner collecting dust. Translation of some French 60s work. I try to break into French Though on occasion but am left feeling it's rootless, up in the clouds and based on tradition, and not solid, confirmable facts. I'm still enrage with Bernard Levi Strauss (think I spelled his name right) when I tracked him down as the cause of the Libyan War. We (US) fought that war because the French insisted, and the French did it because he thought we should. I think he should be extradited to Libya to share a cell with Qaddafi's son. See what happens.