Bianca Lamblin (born Bienenfeld; 1921 – 5 November 2011) was a French writer who had affairs with philosophers

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and litera ...

and

Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 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, and even th ...

for a number of years. In her book ''Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée'' (published in English as ''A Disgraceful Affair''), she wrote that, while a student at Lycée Molière, she was sexually exploited by her teacher Beauvoir, who was in her 30s.Rodgers, N., & Thompson, M. (2005). Philosophers behaving badly. London: Peter Owen. In correspondence between Sartre and Beauvoir, the pseudonym Louise Védrine was used when referring to Bianca in ''Lettres au Castor'' and ''Lettres à Sartre''.

Biography

Bianca Lamblin was born in 1921 in

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, to

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parents. She was a cousin of the French writer

Georges Perec Georges Perec (; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holoc ...

. In 1937, her teacher was Simone de Beauvoir. She also met Sartre at this time. In

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, Bianca was friends with Jean Kanapa,

Yvonne Picard Yvonne Picard (1 August 1920 – 9 March 1943) was a French philosopher and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. She and her brother, the historian Gilbert Charles-Picard, were the children of the archaeologist Charle ...

, Raoul Lévy and Bernard Lamblin. She married Bernard Lamblin and they had two children. Bianca became a teacher, and after Simone de Beauvoir's death, Bianca wrote ''Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée''.

Bibliography

* ''Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée'' (1994, LGF - Livre de Poche; /2006, Balland; )

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*Jean-Paul Sartre (1983). ''Lettres au Castor et à quelques autres, tome 1 : 1926-1939''. Paris: Gallimard. *Simone de Beauvoir (1990). ''Lettres à Sartre, tome 1 : 1930-1939''. Paris: Gallimard. *Deirdre Blair (1991). ''Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography''. New York: Touchstone. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lamblin, Bianca 1921 births 2011 deaths French memoirists Jean-Paul Sartre Place of death missing Simone de Beauvoir French women memoirists 20th-century French women writers Writers from Lublin Polish emigrants to France

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