de Beauvoir

[ duh bohv-wahr; French duh boh-vwar ]

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Si·mone [see-, mawn] Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand, 1908–86, French playwright, novelist, and essayist.

de Beauvoir

/ də bovwar /

de BeauvoirSimone19081986FFrenchWRITING: novelistPOLITICS: feminist 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)

After the week was up all would be brought before Simone de Beauvoir, who would decide what to do with them.

The 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.

But for M. Bertrand's assurance that the encounter was to be with M. de Beauvoir, I would have gone to the police.

As a result, Morton, being head over ears in love with her, sent de Beauvoir a challenge.

Philippe de Lannoy, sieur de Beauvoir, the commander of the Flemings, ordered them to halt.

Only imagine what a rage this put the marquise de Beauvoir in: she stormed, wept, had a nervous attack.

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