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Natalie Sorokine (17 May 1921 – 20 December 1968) was a French woman who had relations with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. [1] [2] Beauvoir was suspended from her teaching job after seducing her 17-year-old lycée pupil in 1939.
Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir and Simone de Beauvoir met in the 1960s, when Beauvoir was in her fifties and Sylvie was a teenager. In 1980, Beauvoir, 72, legally adopted Sylvie, who was in her late thirties, by which point they had already been in an intimate relationship for decades.
Simone de Beauvoir Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer , educator, artist, and activist. She attended the University of Oxford and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford .
Deirdre Bair's biography of Simone de Beauvoir [3] examines this relationship. Hazel Rowley also discusses it at length in her book [4] about the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. In 1946 Olga married Jacques-Laurent Bost, a long-time lover of de Beauvoir. She died of tuberculosis in 1983. [5]
Bair authored seven biographies and one autobiography during her lifetime. She received a 1981 National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978). [4] [a] Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Carl Jung [5] were finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1991 and 2004, respectively. [6]
Shay and Algren met in 1949 and collaborated on many projects, including photos and an essay for Holiday Magazine that Algren later turned into his book Chicago: City on the Make. Shay took well-known pictures of Simone de Beauvoir (nude and portrait) when she visited Chicago to be with Algren.
The family appeared to start off happily enough. In 1955, only 18 years old and already pregnant with Leoncio, Luisa Isabel married José Leoncio González de Gregorio, a nobleman from Soria.
Les Amants du Flore (The Lovers of Flore) is a 2006 French TV film, directed by Ilan Duran Cohen, about the relationship between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir beginning with their university years, then the following 20 years through the wartime, post-war fame and publication of Le Deuxième Sexe.