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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, biographies, autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simone de Beauvoir has received more than 5,669,048 page views. Her biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 118 in 2019). Simone de Beauvoir is the 47th most popular writer, the 39th most popular biography from France (down from 37th in 2019) and the 11th 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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  • 122

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 47 out of 5,755. Before her are Friedrich Schiller, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Aristophanes, Euripides, and Mark Twain. After her are Sappho, Octave Mirbeau, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Émile Zola, and Hesiod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 1. After her are Oskar Schindler, Abraham Maslow, James Stewart, Salvador Allende, Enver Hoxha, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Herbert von Karajan, Lyndon B. Johnson, Otto Skorzeny, Ian Fleming, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Among people deceased in 1986, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 1. After her are Wallis Simpson, Jorge Luis Borges, Olof Palme, Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Cary Grant, Frank Herbert, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mircea Eliade, Tenzing Norgay, and Joseph Beuys.

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In France

Among people born in France, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 39 out of 6,011. Before her are Henry IV of France (1553), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Pierre Curie (1859), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122). After her are Philip IV of France (1268), Eugène Delacroix (1798), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Louis XIII of France (1601), Édouard Manet (1832), and Octave Mirbeau (1848).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Simone de Beauvoir ranks 11. Before her are Molière (1622), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), and Denis Diderot (1713). After her are Octave Mirbeau (1848), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), and Charles Perrault (1628).

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