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-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was born in 1908 into a reactionary Catholic family with pretensions to nobility. She had a Proustian childhood on the Boulevard Saint-Germain, in ...

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 ...

The flaws of the previous translation, first published by Knopf in 1953, are well-known. The translator, a retired zoologist named H. M Parshley, garbled a number of Beauvoir's key philosophical ...

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 ...

The French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir was dropped from a list of female candidates to have their sculptures placed in the Old Library in Trinity College Dublin because of the ...

While pioneering philosopher Simone de Beauvoir is famously buried adjacent to fellow philosopher and long-term partner Jean-Paul Sartre, ... Lanzmann is now 92 years old; de Beauvoir died in 1986.

Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène de Beauvoir at one of her exhibition openings in the 1960s. ... At its inauguration in 1975, 65-year-old Hélène met 25-year-old Monteil via Simone and, ...

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 ...

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.