Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir is the adopted daughter of

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 ...

. She is a

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. The meeting between the two women was recounted in the book ''Tout compte fait'', which Simone de Beauvoir dedicated to Le Bon. Le Bon was one of the women that de Beauvoir and

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 ...

cared and provided for. Sylvie Le Bon and Simone de Beauvoir met in 1960, when Le Bon was 17 and de Beauvoir was 52. De Beauvoir legally adopted Le Bon in 1980, making her the sole executor of her will. 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

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'' *''Correspondance croisée'' (Simone de Beauvoir and

Jacques-Laurent Bost Jacques-Laurent Bost (6 May 1916, Le Havre – 21 September 1990, Paris) was a French journalist and close friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Biography Bost was born the youngest of ten children on 6 May 1916 in Le Havre, Norman ...

) *''Anne, ou quand prime le spirituel'' (republication of Simone's first novel)

References

*Contributeurs à Wikipedia, "Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir," Wikipedia, http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sylvie_Le_Bon_de_Beauvoir&oldid=37383641 (Page consultée le janvier 25, 2009). {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Bon-de Beauvoir, Sylvie French philosophers Living people Simone de Beauvoir Year of birth missing (living people) French women philosophers 20th-century French women writers 20th-century French writers Women anthologists