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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.