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Simone de Beauvoir

1908 - 1986

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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (UK: , US: ; French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, short stories, biographies, autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy", The Second Sex (1949), a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simone de Beauvoir is the 46th most popular writer (up from 49th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from France (down from 41st in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Writer.

Simone de Beauvoir is most famous for her book, The Second Sex, which is a feminist work that argues that women are treated as the 'second sex' in society.

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Among writers, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 46 out of 7,302. Before her are Hermann Hesse, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Horace, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Alexander Pushkin. After her are Friedrich Schiller, Aristophanes, Thomas Hardy, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, and Denis Diderot.

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Among people born in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 1. After her are James Stewart, Enver Hoxha, Oskar Schindler, Salvador Allende, Abraham Maslow, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, Lev Landau, Otto Skorzeny, and Amon Göth. Among people deceased in 1986, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 1. After her are Jorge Luis Borges, Wallis Simpson, Vyacheslav Molotov, Olof Palme, Andrei Tarkovsky, Cary Grant, Mircea Eliade, Tenzing Norgay, Jiddu Krishnamurti, James Rainwater, and Robert S. Mulliken.

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Among people born in France, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 42 out of 6,770. Before her are Louis XIII of France (1601), Paul Gauguin (1848), Émile Durkheim (1858), Napoleon III (1808), Louis XVIII of France (1755), and Claudius (-10). After her are Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), Henry IV of France (1553), Pierre Curie (1859), Denis Diderot (1713), and André-Marie Ampère (1775).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 9. Before her are Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Honoré de Balzac (1799), and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900). After her are Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), and Octave Mirbeau (1848).

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