de Beauvoir

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

noun

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

de Beauvoir

/ də bovwar /

noun

1. 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)

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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.

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The petitioners included Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir.

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Claude Lanzmann was one of Simone de Beauvoir's “contingent lovers,” a role officially approved by Sartre.

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At the same time, however, he led her to believe that his adversary was de Beauvoir, and not de Beauvallon.

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

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

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

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

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