Beauvoir
Britishnoun
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“She does what she pleases and that is what upsets,” wrote the feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in an essay on Bardot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
In her prime, Bardot was considered a national treasure in France, received by President Charles de Gaulle at the Élysée Palace and analyzed exhaustively by existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
It inspire Simone de Beauvoir in 1960 to say, "BB now deserves to be considered an export product as important as Renault automobiles."
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
Writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett and singer Serge Gainsbourg were laid to rest at Montparnasse, while actress Jane Birkin's ashes were interned there.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
The backshifted Simone de Beauvoir noted that women faced discrimination is neutral as to whether such discrimination is a persistent feature of our society.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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