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Simone de Beauvoir's Life in Weeks

French existentialist philosopher and feminist writer whose work The Second Sex is a foundational text of modern feminism. She examined the social construction of womanhood with rigorous philosophical analysis.

1908–1986 French Writer & Philosopher 4,075 weeks (78 years)

Simone de Beauvoir's 4,075 Weeks

Each box represents one week. Lived weeks Key milestones

4,075
Total Weeks
28,525
Days Lived
5
Key Milestones
78
Years

Key Milestones

Age 21 · Week ~1,092

Passed the agrégation in philosophy, the youngest person to do so at the time

Age 21 · Week ~1,092

Met Jean-Paul Sartre, beginning a lifelong intellectual partnership

Age 35 · Week ~1,820

Published her first novel, She Came to Stay

Age 41 · Week ~2,132

Published The Second Sex

Age 46 · Week ~2,392

Won the Prix Goncourt for The Mandarins

Legacy

Wrote The Second Sex, a groundbreaking analysis of women's oppression that became a cornerstone of feminist philosophy and inspired the second-wave feminist movement.

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