Figure timeline
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.
entertainment · French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986) · political philosopher · journalist · novelist · autobiographer · essayist · political activist · diarist · women letter writer · philosopher · literary critic · also Simone de Beauvoir, Beauvoir
Born 9 January 1908 · Died 14 April 1986 · Q7197
63 published statements · 0 followers
Updated 1 day agoSee & hear
12 photos · 1 audio · 1 video
Video
Ikusgela – Simone de Beauvoir
Listen
Fr-Simone de Beauvoir
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Unverified headlines, straight from trusted outlets’ feeds
Checking the wires…
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Connections
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
s movement or as an intellectual ambassador championing causes such as Algerian independence, her greatest achievement in life was her relationship with Sartre - philosopher, playwright, philanderer, born 100 years ago this month. There is something mysterious in De Beauvoir
“s movement or as an intellectual ambassador championing causes such as Algerian independence, her greatest achievement in life was her relationship with Sartre - philosopher, playwright, philanderer, born 100 years ago this month. There is something mysterious in De Beauvoir”
“Faith allows an evasion of those difficulties which the atheist confronts honestly. And to crown all, the believer derives a sense of great superiority from this very cowardice itself.”
“Marriage was impossible. I had no dowry”
Dezeen: Mosley Thorold mixes salvaged and natural materials in De Beauvoir home renovation
London Evening Standard: On the Sauce at De Beauvoir Deli: Bread and wine in N1
Philosophy Break: Simone de Beauvoir: the Best Romantic Partners Celebrate Each Other’s Freedom
lafolkargentina.com.ar: Simone de Beauvoir, filósofa francesa: "No se nace mujer: se llega a serlo"
Yahoo: Simone de Beauvoir: Life Gains Value Through Love and Compassion for Others
The Guardian: The Inseparables review – friendship falters in an impassioned Simone de Beauvoir adaptation
Variety: Elsa Zylberstein to Star as Simone de Beauvoir in Film From Writer Christopher Hampton, Director Anne Fontaine (EXCLUSIVE)
The Atlantic: Simone De Beauvoir
The Guardian: Siri Hustvedt: ‘I responded viscerally to De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex’
Wall Street Journal: ‘Inseparable’ Review: A Lost Story of Youth From Simone de Beauvoir
And two different English translations in 2021, by Sandra Smith in the US and Lauren Elkin in the UK
Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Beauvoir for 1949
The manuscript pages of The Second Sex were published
Reinstating a third of the original work
Was there a second translation, to mark the 60th anniversary of the original publication
“It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting.”
Died 1986-04-14.
“On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.”
“No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.”
“The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House”
François Mitterrand offered her the Legion of Honor, but she refused it
“on the margins, and there was little in her book to suggest the power of woman bonding. Adrienne Rich, Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity”
Awarded Benjamin E. Lippincott Award for The Second Sex (1981).
Wrote La Cérémonie des adieux (A Farewell to Sartre), a painful account of Sartre's last years
Beauvoir published his letters to her with edits to spare the feelings of people in their circle who were still living
Beauvoir, 72, legally adopted Sylvie, who was in her late thirties, by which point they had already been in an intimate relationship for decades
Awarded Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1978).
Beauvoir signed a petition along with other French intellectuals that supported the freeing of three arrested paedophiles
Awarded Jerusalem Prize (1975).
“s liberation. She publicly declared herself a feminist in 1972 in an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur. In 2018, the manuscript pages of The Second Sex were published. Other notable works She Came to Stay Beauvoir published her first novel She Came to Stay in 1943. It has been assumed that it is inspired by her and Sartre”
In an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur
A manifesto that included a list of famous women who claimed to have had an abortion, then illegal in France
Beauvoir published a novella-length autobiography, A Very Easy Death, covering the time she spent visiting her aging mother, who was dying of cancer
“Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”
Published Les Temps Moderne in support of Algerian independence and three essays called Privileges which questioning how the privileged can question their situation, and stated the privileged number be not ignorant o
Awarded Prix Goncourt for The Mandarins (1954).
Beauvoir would win the Prix Goncourt for Les Mandarins
The Mandarins won France's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt
The book describes her first love, a classmate named Elisabeth Lacoin ("Zaza") who died before age 22 of viral encephalitis, and had as a teenager a "passionate and tragic" relationship with Beauvoir
And in 1954, Beauvoir won France's most prestigious literary prize for The Mandarins, in which Algren is the character Lewis Brogan
In French as Le Deuxième Sexe, turns the existentialist mantra that existence precedes essence into a feminist one: "One is not born, but rather becomes, woman" (French: "On ne naît pas femme, on le devient")
Made a long trip to the United States where she met Sartre’s lover Dolors Vanetti
While she was on a four-month "exploration" trip of the United States using various means of transport: automobile, train, and Greyhound
But she would not teach again dedicating herself fulltime to writing
Beauvoir was among a small number of prominent intellectuals advocating for his execution for the 'intellectual crimes' of supporting Fascism and the genocide of Jewish people
Beauvoir had been suspended from her teaching position when she was accused of seducing her 17-year-old lycée pupil Natalie Sorokine in 1939
Which resulted in a one and a half yearlong investigation
Simone introduced Bianca to Sartre, and she was impressed by him and also began a relationship with him
Beauvor became friends and possibly lovers with René Maheau, who was friends with Sartre
The jury for the agrégation narrowly awarded Sartre first place and gave second to Beauvoir
(the topic was "Le concept chez Leibniz" ["The Concept in Leibniz"])
Wrote her Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (roughly equivalent to an M
Studied mathematics at the Institut Catholique de Paris and literature/languages at the Institut Sainte-Marie
The family moved to a small fifth floor apartment with no central heating, running water, or bathroom
Born 1908-01-09.
Awarded honorary doctorate of Concordia University.
Studied at Catholic University of Paris.
Studied at Sorbonne.
Studied at University of Paris.
Studied at Lycée Fénelon, Paris.