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Simone de Beauvoir.. An Enigma

20th October 2019 admin 0 Comments Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosophy, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Simone de Beauvoir

I will always be seduced by Paris and its most famous French writer, intellectual, existentialist “philosophe”, feminist icon, Simone de Beauvoir.

It would have been thrilling to have existed in the dazzling decade of the 1940’s, when Paris reclaimed its status as the capital of philosophy, art and joie de vivre, after enduring a debilitating humiliating Second World War.

Having lived and loved in Paris for many years, particularly in its most artistic, literary “quartier” of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, I’ve been delighted to have become an habitué of the legendary Parisian café frequented and made famous by de Beauvoir and her lover, the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre”…

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Women and the Workplace: a Personal Perspective

17th March 201331st March 2020 Lettre de Paris 0 Comments Chrystia Freeland, Hanna Rosin, Lean In, Sheryl K. Sandberg, Simone de Beauvoir, Women and the Workplace

In this weekend’s edition of the International Herald Tribune, I was drawn to read an article entitled “In Sandberg, Echoes of De Beauvoir” by Chrystia Freeland, where the author makes the correlation between some of De Beauvoir’s thoughts on women and their perception within society and Sheryl K. Sandberg’s recent book “Lean In”, which argues that some of those misperceptions of women described long ago, still hold true today. I was riveted.