In a phone interview from Paris, Le Bon de Beauvoir said she knew “The Inseparables” should eventually be published when she first read the manuscript in 1986, soon after Beauvoir’s death.

Simone de Beauvoir in her studio, rue Schoelcher 12 bis, Montparnasse, Paris, March 1986. Bettina Flitner/National Museum of Women in the Arts ...

Inseparable. By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by Sandra Smith. Ecco; 176 pages; $26.99. Published in Britain as “The Inseparables”. Translated by Lauren Elkin. Vintage Classics; £12.99 IN ...

Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone: Woman of the Century”) will star as the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir in a feature film that will be penned by Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton ...

De Beauvoir was born in 1910, two years after Simone. When the girls were small they would play a game in which a heroine would triumph over an evil male villain. De Beauvoir always played the man.

Born in Paris to a middle-class Catholic family, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) helped create the foundation for the modern feminist movement.

The novelist Ali Smith first came across the work of Simone de Beauvoir in an Inverness bookshop, aged 18 or 19, and was instantly compelled by her “tough, troubling” prose. In this week’s long read, ...