French feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir's "mad passion" for a lover 18 years her junior has been revealed in a letter published for the first time Sunday.
It also shows that she was never sexually satisfied by her partner, the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
The writer, who condemned marriage as an "obscene" institution which enslaved women in her classic book,Read more
Film-maker Claude Lanzmann has sold 112 passionate love letters sent to him by the legendary French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, Christie's auction house said Friday.
The director of the acclaimed Holocaust documentary "Shoah" said he has been forced to part with the correspondence because of a "scandalous" French inheritance law which means that they must go to her family onRead more