Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was a French author, philosopher, and feminist.

Life

Born Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir on January 9, 1908 in Paris, France, she studied at Sorbonne where, in 1929, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, who was studying there through elite École Normale Supérieure (contrary to a common thought, she never studied there, but was familiar to it, through Jean-Paul Sartre and others). In 1981 she wrote La Cérémonie Des Adieux (A Farewell to Sartre), a painful account of Sartre's last years.

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January 9 - 1908 - Paris, France - Sorbonne - Jean-Paul Sartre - École Normale Supérieure

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Beauvoir has come to be seen as the mother of post-1968 feminism, with philosophical writings linked to, though independent of, Sartrian existentialism. She is best known for her work Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex, 1949) which contained detailed analysis of women's oppression.

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Feminism - Sartrian - Existentialism - The Second Sex

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Simone de Beauvoir died of pneumonia on April 14, 1986 and was buried alongside Sartre at the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris, France.

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Pneumonia - April 14 - 1986 - Cimetière du Montparnasse

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