de Beauvoir
Si·mone [see-mawn] /siˈmɔn/ Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand, 1908–86, French playwright, novelist, and essayist.
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After the week was up all would be brought before Simone de Beauvoir, who would decide what to do with them.
National Book Award Winner Louise Erdrich: How I Write | Noah Charney | December 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe petitioners included Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Claude Lanzmann was one of Simone de Beauvoir's “contingent lovers,” a role officially approved by Sartre.
At the same time, however, he led her to believe that his adversary was de Beauvoir, and not de Beauvallon.
The Magnificent Montez | Horace WyndhamBut for M. Bertrand's assurance that the encounter was to be with M. de Beauvoir, I would have gone to the police.
The Magnificent Montez | Horace Wyndham
As a result, Morton, being head over ears in love with her, sent de Beauvoir a challenge.
The Magnificent Montez | Horace WyndhamPhilippe de Lannoy, sieur de Beauvoir, the commander of the Flemings, ordered them to halt.
The Legend of Ulenspiegel | Charles de CosterOnly imagine what a rage this put the marquise de Beauvoir in: she stormed, wept, had a nervous attack.
Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry | Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
British Dictionary definitions for de Beauvoir
/ (French də bovwar) /
Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le sang des autres (1944), Le deuxième sexe (1949), and Les mandarins (1954)
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