Jean-Paul Sartre

Her body was returned to Paris for burial at Montparnasse cemetery beside Sartre . Five thousand people walked in her funeral procession.

In Brussels, while working for UNRRA , IM first encountered existentialist philosophy, which was to have a profound effect on her life and work. She met Sartre in 1945. At a slightly later stage...

Sent to a private school, the deeply Catholic Adeline Désir Institute , at five and a half, SB was ecstatic. The idea of entering upon a life of my own intoxicated me, and...

ND was educated at a convent school, which she left at the age of fourteen. Reading of some texts which were vital to her experience—Jane Austen and Jean-Paul Sartre —came after she had left...

SB met Jean-Paul Sartre while both were preparing to write agrégation exams at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Jean-Paul Sartre , French philosopher, novelist, dramatist, critic, and SB 's lifelong partner, died in Paris.

SB 's early perception of Jean-Paul Sartre was as the centre of a little band of scoffers and moral daredevils, which she felt sure she could never penetrate. The first member of the group...

Though KKD 's father, Abanimohan Kushari , studied economics at the University of Dacca (now Dhaka) and worked as a civil servant, his true love was literature. He taught himself to speak French and German...

Her relationship with Sartre was not all smooth. It became a three-way relationship, against de Beauvoir's will, when he invited into their shared life a younger woman, Olga Kosakiewicz . SB for her part had...

During her time in the USA, SB embarked on a love-affair with Chicago writer Nelson Algren . They continued to correspond after her return to France, and in 1998 selections from this correspondence were published...

In Paris on a press pass shortly after the liberation of France, AWE met with Jean-Paul Sartre to express her admiration for his play Les mouches.

In shaping her thought, her father 's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre ...

Sartre believed it to be the best thing she had ever written.

The one-hundredth anniversary of SB 's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the...

SB 's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter has written that SB 's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and...