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3 unusual facts about De Beauvoir


Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir

In March 2005, Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, proposed naming it "Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir" and inaugurated the bridge on July 13, 2006, with de Beauvoir's adoptive daughter Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir in attendance.

Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir

She is preparing a publication of the letters of Simone de Beauvoir and Violette Leduc in May 2006 (communication with the writer, May 2006).

Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir is the adoptive daughter of Simone de Beauvoir.


John Anderson Graham

Graham was born in a religious family on 8 September 1861 at De Beauvoir, West Hackney district, London, to the Scottish father from Dunbartonshire David Graham, a customs officer, and the Irish mother Bridget Nolan, a homemaker.


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Deirdre Bair

Her biographies of Anaïs Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were chosen by the New York Times as “Best Books of the Year”, and her biography of Jung won the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

Dietmar Feichtinger

He designed the Simone-de-Beauvoir footbridge in Paris, exceptional 190 m free-span in innovating the new combined structure, won the European competition for the Mont Saint-Michel pedestrian causeway bridge and the Three Countries Bridge the longest arch footbridge in the world linking France and Germany over the Rhine(inaugurated 30 June 2007).

Olga Kosakiewicz

She and her sister, Wanda Kosakiewicz, are fused together to make one central character in de Beauvoir's first novel L'Invitée (She Came to Stay, 1943, Gallimard), which was dedicated to Olga (where her name appears as Kosakievicz in the Norton translation).

Victor Scipion Charles Auguste de La Garde de Chambonas

He was born in Paris, the son of Scipion Louis Joseph de La Garde, Marquis de Chambonas (1765) and of Louise Victoire Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure.

Windmills in Jersey

The Moulin de Grouville or Moulin de Beauvoir is an early nineteenth century tower mill of five storeys.