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Sunday, January 21, 2018

'You are my destiny': Simone de Beauvoir's mad passion for young lover revealed in letters

Writer’s correspondence with film-maker Claude Lanzmann, 18 years her junior, is published and handed over to Yale University

The 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.

The letter also shows that she was never sexually satisfied by her partner, the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

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