Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Simone de Beauvoir across 6 places, from 1908 to 1986.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Simone de Beauvoir is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Simone de Beauvoir was documented, and when
9 January 1908exact date
6th arrondissement of Parisattested“Beauvoir was born on 9 January 1908, into a bourgeois Parisian family in the 6th arrondissement.”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
1945year
Franceattested“Sorokine's parents laid formal charges against Beauvoir for debauching a minor (the age of consent in France at the time was 13 until 1945, when it became 15) and Beauvoir's licence to teach in France was revoked, although it was subsequ…”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
1950 to 1954period
Atlanticattested“She wrote to him across the Atlantic as "my beloved husband." Algren won the National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm in 1950, and in 1954, Beauvoir won France's most prestigious literary prize for The Mandarins, in which Algr…”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
1976year
United Statesattested“In about 1976, Beauvoir and Sylvie Le Bon made a trip to New York City in the United States to visit Kate Millett on her farm.”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
1976year
New York Cityattested“In about 1976, Beauvoir and Sylvie Le Bon made a trip to New York City in the United States to visit Kate Millett on her farm.”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
Other places tied to Simone de Beauvoir in the record
In each of these, a source puts Simone de Beauvoir and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Simone de Beauvoir was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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1925year
Institut Catholique de Parismentioned“After passing baccalaureate exams in mathematics and philosophy at the age of seventeen in 1925, she studied mathematics at the Institut Catholique de Paris and literature/languages at the .”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
1947year
Chicagomentioned“Beauvoir met Algren in Chicago in 1947, while she was on a four-month "exploration" trip of the United States using various means of transport: automobile, train, and Greyhound.”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
1948year
Francementioned“She kept a detailed diary of the trip, which was published in France in 1948 with the title America Day by Day.”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
1955 to 1957period
Chinamentioned“Her 1955 travels in China were the basis of her 1957 travelogue The Long March, in which she praised the efforts of the Chinese communists to emancipate women.”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
1971year
Francementioned“She wrote and signed the Manifesto of the 343 in 1971, a manifesto that included a list of famous women who claimed to have had an abortion, then illegal in France.”source: Wikipedia: Simone de Beauvoir
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