Timeline Tuesday 24 August 1943

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• 1909 – 1943 Simone Weil (1909-1943) Died 24 August 1943, aged 34 Simone Weil was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist whose writings include Gravity and Grace and The Need for Roots. She limited what she ate in solidarity with people in occupied France. She died of tuberculosis and heart failure in Ashford, Kent.