And Simone de Beauvoir is still teaching them philosophy. Until, that is, she is sacked, for the offence of “excitation de mineure à la debauche” – behaviour leading to the debauching of a ...

By Leslie Camhi INSEPARABLE By Simone de Beauvoir Translated by Sandra Smith ... sitting beside Jean-Paul Sartre at a table in the Cafe de Flore or La Coupole and writing all day long, become ...

Almost 300 mostly unpublished letters from feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir to the French novelist ... Leduc finally gained critical acclaim for her memoir La Bâtarde in 1964.

In The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir argued that women were at a ... one of these myths of femininity – la femme forte or the strong woman – appears more times than she does in English ...

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 ...

An intimate portrait of the philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir through her archive and the words of those who knew her or know her work. Show more Of the reception of The Second Sex ...