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Article: Simone de Beauvoir, 78, renowned French author, social philosopher
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 15, 1986
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PARIS Simone de Beauvoir, the renowned French writer who
thought herself more of a Marxist than a feminist when she wrote what
became a primer of women's liberation, The Second Sex, more than 35
years ago, died yesterday at age 78.
No cause of her death in Cochin Hospital here was given, but she
reportedly had circulatory problems. She had grown increasingly
reclusive in her final years.
A companion for more than half a century of French philosopher
and novelist Jean Paul Sartre, who died six years ago today, Miss de
Beauvoir fashioned an impressive literary career of her own as a
novelist, social philosopher, essayist and memoir writer.
She and Sartre set the literary and political ...