Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris on 9 January 1908. A student at the Sorbonne, she passed the agrégation in philosophy in 1929 and taught in secondary schools until 1943, before devoting herself to writing. A novelist, essayist and memoirist, she shared the whole of her life with Jean-Paul Sartre. Her 1949 essay on the condition of women became a founding text of feminism. She died in Paris on 14 April 1986.

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• NovelThe MandarinsLes MandarinsSimone de Beauvoir · 1954Literature