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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR | Infotainment Video | Series: The Greats | 5 Minute Biography |  Video description: This video is part of the TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT series that highlights the greatest people in history from all walks of life. Each 5-minute short biography covers all aspects of the featured person’s life, including rare videos of them. In this video, we feature Simone De Beauvoir. Discover the remarkable journey of this influential figure and their lasting impact on the world. Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.  About TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: Welcome to Trendest Infotainment, your ultimate destination for a diverse range of content that educates, entertains, and inspires! From in-depth celebrity biographies and fascinating history videos to the latest in science and technology, we bring you an expansive collection of infotainment videos. Explore the stories of legendary sports personalities, dive into the history of the World Wars, marvel at wildlife documentaries, and enjoy our informative and funny shorts. There’s something for everyone on Trendest Infotainment!  Subscribe now: www.youtube.com/@UCvtG20NOq0X7l7ru-z1yBhw   #Infotainment #Documentaries #HistoryVideos #ScienceAndTech #CelebrityBiographies   Follow Trendest Media:  • YouTube:  1) TRENDEST MOVIES: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_MOVIES_ENGLISH  2) TRENDEST KIDS: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_KIDS  • Instagram:  TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.instagram.com/trendestinfotainment/  • Facebook: TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.facebook.com/TrendestInfotainment/  COPYRIGHT:  We hold the proper licenses for all videos published on YouTube. For any questions, please contact: mail@trendest.in  AYA Media Private Limited & TRENDEST Media Private Limited are companies registered under the laws of India and located in the state of Kerala, India.

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00:30It is often said that behind every great man is a great woman.

00:34With Jean-Paul Sartre and Simon de Beauvoir, however,

00:37it was one of the few happy times when the great woman

00:41did not languish in her famous partner's shadow,

00:44but was equally lauded in her own right.

00:47Indeed, their relationship began in 1929,

00:50when de Beauvoir gave a presentation

00:52on the 17th century German philosopher Leibniz,

00:55impressing Sartre,

00:57who pursued the 21-year-old philosopher and author.

01:00While not monogamous,

01:02the two were lifelong companions from then on.

01:05Together, they were at the forefront

01:07of the existentialist movement,

01:09with Sartre penning such notable works

01:11as Being and Nothingness in 1943,

01:14de Beauvoir following four years later

01:16with The Ethics of Ambiguity,

01:18which is often regarded as the most accessible introduction

01:22to the philosophy of French existentialism.

01:25Together, de Beauvoir and Sartre travelled around the world,

01:28teaching and lecturing.

01:30They met world leaders like Fidel Castro,

01:32were among a host of European authors

01:34invited by Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev

01:37to attend his reception for writers

01:39at his holiday villa near the Black Sea.

01:42In 1966, she and Sartre travelled to the Middle East,

01:46meeting with Dr Sawat,

01:48the United Arab Republic Deputy Premier

01:50for Cultural and National Guidance.

01:53They also visited Cairo University

01:56as part of their quest to examine the causes

01:58of the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict.

02:02De Beauvoir's work spanned many genres.

02:05Her fiction included metaphysical novels

02:07like 1943's She Came to Stay,

02:10based on the menage-a-trois she conducted with Sartre

02:13and one of her female students.

02:15She also wrote essays, monographs, biographies

02:19and her autobiography.

02:21Her most famous work, however, was The Second Sex,

02:24which she produced in 1949,

02:27marking her forever as one of the founding mothers

02:30of the women's liberation movement.

02:33De Beauvoir and Sartre had very particular principles

02:36when it came to awards and literary prizes.

02:39Sartre even turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964,

02:43becoming only the second person to do so

02:46after Boris Pasternak in 1958.

02:49But in mid-1970s, De Beauvoir went against

02:52a 30-year practice by agreeing to attend

02:55the 7th Jerusalem International Book Fair.

02:58Her reasons for doing so were, she said,

03:00to voice her solidarity with the State of Israel

03:03in the face of condemnation from the United Nations

03:06Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

03:12At the presentation, attended by Yitzhak Rabin

03:15and the mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kolek,

03:17she talked about the Jewish state

03:19and also discussed the second sex,

03:21expounding on her belief that many women

03:23were actually complicit in their own subjugation,

03:26content to remain dependent upon their husband

03:29and ignorant of what they could actually do with their freedom.

03:32On the 15th of April, 1980,

03:35De Beauvoir finally said goodbye to Sartre,

03:38after half a century with him,

03:40when he died aged 74 of an oedema of the lung.

03:44He was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris

03:47and 50,000 mourners attended his funeral.

03:50Some people were trampled in the throng and others fainted.

03:54De Beauvoir needed assistance to even get to the graveside,

03:57where she was flanked by such notable figures

04:00of the French arts world as Simon Signoret,

04:02Juliette Greco, Yves Montand and François Sargon.

04:06After Sartre's death, De Beauvoir continued to work,

04:10publishing A Farewell to Sartre,

04:12in which she edited his letters to her

04:14in order to avoid hurting people in their circle who were still alive.

04:18She also kept editing Les Temps Modernes,

04:21the journal they had founded together after World War II,

04:24right up until her own death from pneumonia

04:27on the 14th of April, 1986.

04:30She was buried next to Sartre at Montparnasse Cemetery,

04:34as inseparable in death as they'd been in life.

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