Élisabeth (“Zaza”) Lacoin and Simone de Beauvoir in 1928. Lacoin was the first of Beauvoir’s contemporaries whom she adored, measured herself against, longed for intimacy with and ardently ...

In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir remembers that as a child, she imagined her best friend, Élisabeth “Zaza” Lacoin, dying, and her schoolteacher announcing that Zaza had ...

A tragic love story that Simone de Beauvoir thought "too intimate" to publish during her lifetime will finally see the light of day Wednesday, 34 years after her death.

Simone de Beauvoir was teaching philosophy in Paris in 1943 when she was sacked for ‘behaviour leading to the debauching of a minor’. ... ‘Zaza’ and Simone de Beauvoir.

Even before “The Inseparables,” Zaza was a character in four earlier unpublished, unfinished novels, written in the 1930s, which Le Bon de Beauvoir hopes to release as part of a future anthology.

Merve Emre reviews Simone de Beauvoir’s novel “Les Inséparables” (translated by Lauren Elkin as “The Inseparables” and by Sandra Smith as “Inseparable”), about her passion for a ...

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 ...

By the mid-1930s, Simone de Beauvoir was widening her universe to consider more than just herself and Jean-Paul Sartre. Gisele Freund/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images.