A collection of 112 love letters penned by the novelist, existentialist philosopher and original feminist Simone de Beauvoir has just been sold by the film maker Claude Lanzmann, who was one of ...

Serial seducers: Simone de Beauvoir and lover Jean-Paul Sartre, whose writing paved the way for our Godless permissive times, lived private lives of utter depravity ...

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 ...

Imagine What It Was Like To Sit Down At Simone De Beauvoir's Desk "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman," wrote the pioneering French feminist. The National Museum of Women in the Arts ...

First, we meet Simone de Beauvoir, who – with her life partner Jean-Paul Sartre – is associated with “ existentialism ” (though Eilenberger writes that she avoids the term).

French actor Elsa Zylberstein will star as Simone de Beauvoir in a film that will be penned by Christopher Hampton and directed by Anne Fontaine.

The others are Simone de Beauvoir, a pioneering feminist; Simone Weil, a trade-union activist who combined mysticism with a yen for social justice; and Ayn Rand, a Russia-born critic of communism ...

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 ...

SHE CAME TO STAY (404 pp.)—Simone de Beauvoir—World ($5).Simone de Beauvoir's place in the French intellectual world is that of a woman who has marched into an all-male club and taken ...

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 ...