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Simone de Beauvoir
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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2026· 9 entries
“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”
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“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.”
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“Marriage was impossible. I had no dowry”
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Dezeen: Mosley Thorold mixes salvaged and natural materials in De Beauvoir home renovation
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London Evening Standard: On the Sauce at De Beauvoir Deli: Bread and wine in N1
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Philosophy Break: Simone de Beauvoir: the Best Romantic Partners Celebrate Each Other’s Freedom
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lafolkargentina.com.ar: Simone de Beauvoir, filósofa francesa: "No se nace mujer: se llega a serlo"
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Yahoo: Simone de Beauvoir: Life Gains Value Through Love and Compassion for Others
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Inseparables review – friendship falters in an impassioned Simone de Beauvoir adaptation
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2023· 1 entry
Variety: Elsa Zylberstein to Star as Simone de Beauvoir in Film From Writer Christopher Hampton, Director Anne Fontaine (EXCLUSIVE)
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2022· 1 entry
The Atlantic: Simone De Beauvoir
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2021· 3 entries
The Guardian: Siri Hustvedt: ‘I responded viscerally to De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex’
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Inseparable’ Review: A Lost Story of Youth From Simone de Beauvoir
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The Guardian: The Inseparables – read an extract from the newly discovered novel by Simone de Beauvoir
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2020· 6 entries
The Guardian: Simone de Beauvoir's 'remarkable' letters to Violette Leduc sold at auction
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The Guardian: Intimate letters reveal Simone de Beauvoir’s role as an agony aunt
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The Guardian: Simone de Beauvoir's 'too intimate' novel to be published after 75 years
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Time: 1949: Simone de Beauvoir
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The Guardian: Parisian Lives by Deidre Bair review – deliciously indiscreet about Beckett and De Beauvoir
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And two different English translations in 2021, by Sandra Smith in the US and Lauren Elkin in the UK
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2019· 1 entry
Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Beauvoir for 1949
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2018· 2 entries
There was a new expanded edition of her biographies published in France with additional letters and materials and includes critiques of her belittlement next to Sartre
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The manuscript pages of The Second Sex were published
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2010· 1 entry
Reinstating a third of the original work
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2009· 1 entry
Was there a second translation, to mark the 60th anniversary of the original publication
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2006· 1 entry
Time: Simone de Beauvoir (13 Nov 2006)
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1997· 1 entry
It created an uproar about the truth of her memoirs
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1993· 1 entry
“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.”
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1986· 7 entries
Died 1986-04-14.
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“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.”
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“Okropnie przykro jest patrzeć, jak umiera nadzieja.”
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“Nikt by nie uwierzył, jakie mnóstwo łez mieści się w kobiecych oczach.”
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“Nagość zaczyna się od twarzy, a bezwstyd od słów.”
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“Qu’est-ce qu’un adulte? Un enfant gonflé d’âge. (fr.)”
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“On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.”
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1984· 1 entry
“The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House”
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1983· 1 entry
And International Simone de Beauvoir Society
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1982· 2 entries
“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”
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François Mitterrand offered her the Legion of Honor, but she refused it
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Benjamin E. Lippincott Award for The Second Sex (1981).
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Wrote La Cérémonie des adieux (A Farewell to Sartre), a painful account of Sartre's last years
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1980· 2 entries
Beauvoir, 72, legally adopted Sylvie, who was in her late thirties, by which point they had already been in an intimate relationship for decades
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Beauvoir published his letters to her with edits to spare the feelings of people in their circle who were still living
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1978).
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1977· 1 entry
Beauvoir signed a petition along with other French intellectuals that supported the freeing of three arrested paedophiles
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Jerusalem Prize (1975).
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1972· 2 entries
“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”
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In an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur
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1971· 1 entry
A manifesto that included a list of famous women who claimed to have had an abortion, then illegal in France
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1970· 1 entry
Which offered a difficult account of aging and associated oppression in western capitalism
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1964· 2 entries
Acting a reflection on the last weeks of her mother's life, and The Woman Destroyed which, like some of her other later work, deals with ageing
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Beauvoir published a novella-length autobiography, A Very Easy Death, covering the time she spent visiting her aging mother, who was dying of cancer
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1958· 1 entry
“Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”
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1955· 1 entry
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
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1954· 4 entries
Awarded Prix Goncourt for The Mandarins (1954).
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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
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Beauvoir would win the Prix Goncourt for Les Mandarins
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The Mandarins won France's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt
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1950· 1 entry
And in 1954, Beauvoir won France's most prestigious literary prize for The Mandarins, in which Algren is the character Lewis Brogan
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1949· 1 entry
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")
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1947· 2 entries
While she was on a four-month "exploration" trip of the United States using various means of transport: automobile, train, and Greyhound
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Made a long trip to the United States where she met Sartre’s lover Dolors Vanetti
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1945· 3 entries
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
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But she would not teach again dedicating herself fulltime to writing
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That they had caused her deep unhappiness and harmed her, with Bianca’s psychologist, Jacques Lacan, agreeing
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1943· 1 entry
Beauvoir had been suspended from her teaching position when she was accused of seducing her 17-year-old lycée pupil Natalie Sorokine in 1939
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1941· 1 entry
Which resulted in a one and a half yearlong investigation
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1938· 2 entries
Simone introduced Bianca to Sartre, and she was impressed by him and also began a relationship with him
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Had only been friends with Beauvoir
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1929· 4 entries
When Beauvoir told Sartre about her ideas about pluralistic ethics, Sartre critiqued her intellectual capacity
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(the topic was "Le concept chez Leibniz" ["The Concept in Leibniz"])
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The jury for the agrégation narrowly awarded Sartre first place and gave second to Beauvoir
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Beauvor became friends and possibly lovers with René Maheau, who was friends with Sartre
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1928· 1 entry
Wrote her Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (roughly equivalent to an M
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1925· 1 entry
Studied mathematics at the Institut Catholique de Paris and literature/languages at the Institut Sainte-Marie
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1919· 1 entry
The family moved to a small fifth floor apartment with no central heating, running water, or bathroom
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-01-09.
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