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1908 – 1986Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)Died 14 April 1986, aged 78French philosopher and writer whose 1949 work The Second Sex became a foundational text of modern feminism. She was a lifelong companion of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and a prominent public intellectual in postwar France. She died in Paris and was buried beside Sartre in Montparnasse Cemetery.