Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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French philosophy professor and adoptive daughter of Simone de Beauvoir
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Place of Birth: Rennes, Brittany, France
About Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir
- Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir is the adoptive daughter of Simone de Beauvoir.
- She is a philosophy professor.
- The meeting between the two women was recounted in the book Tout compte fait, which Beauvoir dedicated to her. Le Bon was one of a number of young women that de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre cared and provided for.
- The two met in 1960, when Le Bon was 17 and de Beauvoir was 57.
- The relationship between them was, in Le Bon's words, "carnal but not sexual".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 Nelson Algren Correspondance croisée (Simone de Beauvoir and Jacques-Laurent Bost) Anne, ou quand prime le spirituel (republication of Simone's first novel)
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