Simone de Beauvoir Trivia Questions

They were lifelong partners and intellectual collaborators, but deliberately avoided marriage, seeing it as a bourgeois institution.

She was devout as a child but became an atheist by age 14, rejecting the religious hypocrisy she observed in her family.

She was nominated but never won. Sartre won in 1964, but Beauvoir herself was famously snubbed by the Nobel committee.

Her 1954 novel 'The Mandarins' won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, partly based on her intellectual circle's postwar struggles.

Beauvoir had no direct role in drafting the declaration. That was led by Eleanor Roosevelt and others. Beauvoir's influence was more in philosophy and literature.

Beauvoir was a key figure in the French women's movement, but 'Choisir' was founded by Gisèle Halimi. Beauvoir later joined its initiatives.

It was never banned in France, though it faced censorship in some other countries and was placed on the Vatican's Index of Prohibited Books.

There is no record of her being a chess champion. She excelled in academics, especially philosophy, and earned top marks in her agrégation.