Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir

Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir is the adopted daughter of Simone de Beauvoir. She is a philosophy professor. The meeting between the two women was recounted in the book Tout compte fait, which Beauvoir dedicated to her.

Le Bon was one of a number of young women that de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre cared and provided for. Sylvie Le Bon and Simone de Beauvoir met in 1960, when Le Bon was 17 and de Beauvoir was 57. [1]

De Beauvoir legally adopted Le Bon in 1980, making her the sole executor of her will.[1]

After the death of Simone de Beauvoir in 1986, Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir published several volumes of letters:

  • Lettres à Sartre - an anthology of the letters between Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre
  • Lettres à Nelson Algren
  • Correspondance croisée (Simone de Beauvoir and Jacques-Laurent Bost)
  • Anne, ou quand prime le spirituel (republication of Simone's first novel)

References
  1. Menand, Louis (2005-09-19). "Stand By Your Man". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
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