Beauvoir’s lovers were male and female; Sartre’s only female. ... “She wants, purely and simply, to eliminate me from the existence of Simone de Beauvoir,” he said.

He was one of the most brilliant minds. She was his lifelong companion who pioneered feminism. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were perhaps the most influential couple of the 20th century.

PARIS: French feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir's "mad passion" for a lover 18 years her junior has been revealed in a letter published for the first t ...

Tete-a-Tete Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre Hazel Rowley HarperCollins: 416 pp., $26.95 ...

Simone de Beauvoir in her studio, rue Schoelcher 12 bis, Montparnasse, Paris, March 1986. Bettina Flitner/National Museum of Women in the Arts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why a Collection of Simone de Beauvoir’s Love Letters Was Just Sold to Yale The 112 letters were written to filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, who had a seven-year relationship with the French philosopher ...