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 ...

Simone de Beauvoir was teaching philosophy in Paris in 1943 when she was sacked for ‘behaviour leading to the debauching of a minor’. Andy Martin writes about a new book that confirms her ...

De Beauvoir being who she was, you wonder whether Laurence is going to become politicised. But no. We get a hint of earlier problems, with youthful anorexia, with some trauma early in her marriage ...

Miss de Beauvoir’s latest book, THE PRIME OF LIFE, recently published by World , is the second volume of her memoirs. In it she ... families, children and all humanisms. . . .

Acertain mythology surrounds Simone de Beauvoir. It presents her to the world as an independent thinker, a spokesperson for women and an advocate of freedom. In truth, the French existentialist ...

Born in Paris to a middle-class Catholic family, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) ... Holmen man accused of acquiring child porn online; Ettrick man accused of driving 100 mph on Hwy. 53; ...

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 insistent on her ambition (“I didn't want to be a young girl of the world, I wanted to become an artist,” she would repeatedly say in later life), and balanced it alongside ...

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The heroine is Laurence, a copywriter for an advertising agency.

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent.