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.
Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001.
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The first member of the group...
names
Simone de Beauvoir
BirthName: Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
Francis, Claude, and Fernande Gontier. Les écrits de Simone de Beauvoir. Gallimard, 1979.
27
Nickname: Castor
Brosman, Catharine Savage. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Twayne, 1991.
12
This nickname, the French word for Beaver, and so derived from a bilingual pun on SB
's surname, was first given her by René Maheu
.