Film-maker Claude Lanzmann has sold 112 passionate love letters sent to him by the legendary French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, Christie's said Friday. The director of the acclaimed Holocaust ...

A tragic love story that Simone de Beauvoir thought "too intimate" to publish during her lifetime will finally see the light of day Wednesday, 34 years after her death.

More welcome than the arrival of roses and bare legs and platform sandals this spring is the new edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s wild and unruly masterpiece, The Second Sex, which should be read much ...

Inseparable. By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by Sandra Smith. Ecco; 176 pages; $26.99. Published in Britain as “The Inseparables”. Translated by Lauren Elkin. Vintage Classics; £12.99 IN 1958, IN ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...