Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me – a Memoir

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She sat neatly on the edge of a divan with her hands together in her lap and there was something of a little girl about the way she jumped up so readily to seek and show her “treasures.” It’s against my principles to spend too much money or attention on clothes, as well, she went on. I refuse to spend thousands of francs on an evening dress. If I have to go anywhere that means wearing one – I don’t go. But, if it interests you. I’ll tell you my life story as far as clothes are concerned. I ask if Le Bon de Beauvoir is tempted to write her own version of their relationship. “Perhaps I will write about her one day – I have always kept notebooks so maybe I’ll do it in a different way. Because you have asked, I will think about it.” Does she have a young protege, a “Sylvie” in her own life? When I was a little girl I was very badly dressed. My parents were very correct and dressed plentifully, but for convention and without taste of their own. At about twelve or fourteen I was terrible – yellow and covered with acne. De Beauvoir’s strong feelings and hopes for Lacoin were also the beginning of her political education. At the time they were at school together, women could not vote, were coerced into marriage and societally encouraged to accept an existence that mostly involved servicing the needs of their future husbands and children.

That girl said you’re the best student in the class,’ she said, tilting her head a little at Lisette. ‘Is that true?’

Sylvie is bored and intellectually lonely, so meeting this clever, irreverent girl changes her life. Sylvie tells us: “Nothing so interesting had ever happened to me. It suddenly seemed as if nothing had ever happened to me at all.” In France, some have seen Les ins éparables as an account of a nascent lesbian affair and proof of De Beauvoir’s bisexuality, which she had always denied. French Vanity Fair described De Beauvoir and Zaza’s relationship as “ambiguous” while the newspaper Lib ération pulled no punches, suggesting it was De Beauvoir’s “first lesbian love story” under the headline “Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sexuality”. So, what sort of girl was Élisabeth Lacoin? Her avatar in The Inseparables is named Andrée, De Beauvoir is Sylvie. A memoir of the time an American Woman wrote biographies of 2 French people that have influenced the literary and philosophical world. And so we began. I thought I would ease into my questioning by asking about her earliest childhood memories, but she went first because she wanted to thank me. “Women come from all over the world to write about me, but all they want to write about is The Second Sex.”

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