Beauvoir in Beijing

ID: 286 ~ Source: Xinhua News Agency ~ Creator: Liu Dong'ao ~ Date: 1 October 1955

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Simone de Beauvoir is pictured here attending a ceremony in Beijing celebrating the 6th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in 1955.

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Simone de Beauvoir – The Parisian philosopher who ushered in the second wave of feminism.

By Sophia Warner

Tucked away in the beautifully cluttered confines of Montparnasse Cemetery is a marble headstone stained pink with lipstick, left over decades by adoring fans. This headstone marks the graves of Parisian philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de…