More About Simone de Beauvoir

Regarding de Beauvoir's background, I thought I might share a few things: her father Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir, a legal secretary who aspired to be an actor, would boast about his daughter, "Simone thinks like a man." He was very encouraging of her. (although maybe later in life, she wouldn't appreciate the comparison her father made...maybe that's just me). I find it sad that, like her family lost their fortune after WW1, she lost her faith in her once-Catholic beliefs (which we briefly touched on in class). I also thought it was cool that she was only the ninth woman to receive a degree from the Sorbonne (where she studied philosophy) since French women had only recently been allowed to join higher education.