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Consciousness is the revealed-revelation of existents, and existents appear before consciousness on the foundation of their being...

Hmmmm...Sometimes Sartre is more valuable for the seasoning he gives a dish rather than for the actual meat he uses.

"Consciousness is the revealed-revelation of existents..." = Consciousness is that which reveals that which Is. Consciouss is nothing; it is, only to the extent that it is anything (with a small "i"), as something that reveals that which Is. It is a tending-toward that which Is in contrast to itself which is that which is-not. Since consciousness is-not, it is a being that is always in question as something that is nothing compared to all that is (Being = existents).

"...and existents appear before consciousness on the foundation of their being..." = Existents are all that are. They are Being, as opposed to consciousness, which is not-being. Existents appear to consciousness on the foundation of their being because that which Is is, only because it has as a foundation, Being.

Or something like that.