What is Simone de Beauvoir?
{{refimprove|date=November 2011}} [[File:Simone de Beauvoir2.png|thumb|Simone de Beauvoir (1967)]] '''Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|d|ə|_|ˈ|b|oʊ|v|w|ɑːr}}, {{IPAc-en|US|d|ə|_|b|oʊ|ˈ|v|w|ɑːr}};<ref>{{cite LPD|3}}</ref><ref>{{cite EPD|18}}</ref> {{IPA-fr|simɔn də bovwaʁ|lang|Fr-Simone de Beauvoir.ogg}}; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a [[French people|French]] [[author]] (writer) and [[philosopher]] (person who writes about [[philosophy|ways of thinking]]). She wrote [[novel]]s (stories in a book), articles about philosophy ways of thinking or ways of living, and politics, biographies (books about other people's lives) and an [[autobiography]] (a book about her life). Her best known books are ''She Came to Stay'' and ''[[The Mandarins]]''. Her best known writing about ideas is ''[[The Second Sex]]'', which was written in 1949. It describes the bad experiences of women in European society, and suggests how [[feminism|women's lives can be improved]]. == Early years == Her full name was Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir. She was born on January 9, 1908 in [[Paris]]. She studied [[mathematics]] and [[philosophy|ways of thinking]] at the Institut Catholique. Then she studied literature and languages at the Institut Sainte-Marie. As well, she studied [[philosophy|ways of thinking]] at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]], which is at the University of Paris. == Her writing; personal life == In 1943, de Beauvoir published ''She Came to Stay'', a story about her lover [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] (who was also a writer and a philosopher). Next, she wrote a novel called ''[[The Mandarins]]'', which won prize. In 1944 de Beauvoir wrote an article called ''Pyrrhus et Cinéas'', which was about a [[philosophy|way of thinking]] about [[existentialism|hard choices that people have to make]]. In 1949, she wrote Le deuxième sexe. It was translated by Howard Parshley to ''[[The Second Sex]]''. It describes the bad experiences of women in European society, and suggests how [[fe