Birth of Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir is born in Paris to Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir and Francoise Brasseur.
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Simone de Beauvoir Biography and Timeline
Follow Simone de Beauvoir through 10 dated historical records for France.
Simone de Beauvoir, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1908–1986Years on this page
1908
1929
Agregation in Philosophy
Beauvoir places second in the philosophy agregation and begins her lifelong partnership with Sartre.
1943
She Came to Stay
Beauvoir publishes She Came to Stay, exploring freedom, jealousy and relations with others.
1944
Pyrrhus and Cineas
Beauvoir publishes Pyrrhus and Cineas, examining freedom, action and ethical relations.
1945
Les Temps Modernes
Beauvoir becomes a founding editor of Les Temps Modernes.
1947
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Beauvoir publishes The Ethics of Ambiguity, developing an existential account of ethical freedom.
1949
The Second Sex
Beauvoir publishes The Second Sex, analysing women's oppression through existential and historical categories.
1954
The Mandarins
Beauvoir publishes The Mandarins, depicting political and moral dilemmas among postwar intellectuals.
1970
The Coming of Age
Beauvoir publishes The Coming of Age, analysing social exclusion and representations of old age.
1986
Death of Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir dies in Paris, aged seventy-eight.
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.