Simone de Beauvoir
9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986
Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, philosopher, and feminist theorist whose work profoundly shaped existentialist thought and the modern feminist movement. Her landmark book The Second Sex is a foundational text of feminist philosophy. She also wrote novels, essays, and memoirs, and maintained a lifelong intellectual partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Life events
Simone de Beauvoir was born into a bourgeois family in Paris.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe passed the highly competitive philosophy agrégation, placing second behind Jean-Paul Sartre.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe met Sartre while studying, beginning an open lifelong intellectual and personal relationship.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDe Beauvoir taught philosophy at lycées in Marseille, Rouen, and Paris.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer first novel, L'Invitée, explored existentialist themes and personal relationships.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLe Deuxième Sexe, her foundational work of feminist philosophy, was published in two volumes.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer novel Les Mandarins, depicting postwar French intellectual life, won France's premier literary prize.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe first volume of her acclaimed autobiography was published.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDe Beauvoir died in Paris and was buried beside Sartre in the Montparnasse Cemetery.
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