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 ...

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 ...

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 over ...

Simone de Beauvoir with her long-time friend Jean-Paul Sartre, for whom she was alleged to have 'groomed' sex partners. Photograph STF/AFP/Getty ...

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 ...

Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt ‘different’ in the world – and changed the way we think Published: November 26, 2023 2:19pm EST Jen Webb , University of ...

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.