Jean-Paul Sartre was 24 and Simone de Beauvoir 21 when they met in Paris in 1929. While both were fiercely intelligent, about to finish first and second in a national exam for students of philosophy, ...

Intellectual, philosophical, literary, rebellious, Simone de Beauvoir spoke a mile a minute, and wrote quickly, too — novels, essays, a play, four memoirs. She was an atheist, bisexual, pioneer ...

AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and ...

THE France into which Simone de Beauvoir was born on the ninth of January, 1908, though fairly solidly bourgeois, was in the throes of one of its periodic crises. The country had just been shaken to ...

In this sensationalist account of the unconventional private and public lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Seymour-Jones (Painted Shadow) offers Sartre's “incestuous” relationship with ...

Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908 in Paris, was the older of two daughters of a strict Catholic couple, and as a child dreamed of becoming a nun. Instead, she lost her faith when she was 14 and by her ...

What do Lindsay Lohan and Simone de Beauvoir have in common? Both the spray-tan party-girl princess and the mother of modern feminism recently raised eyebrows by appearing in racy magazine photos. The ...

In the popular imagination, Simone de Beauvoir is best known as the foremother of contemporary feminism, and as the turbaned, chain-smoking, glamorously intellectual companion of Jean-Paul Sartre.