Simone de Beauvoir’s lover has sold 112 letters from her, to stay part of her legacy
Wading into a literary skirmish, French newspaper Le Monde has published a never-before-seen letter from Simone de Beauvoir to one of her lovers, director Claude Lanzmann. In the 1953 letter, Beauvoir writes of her devotion to the young Lanzmann, the director of Shoah, who was then in his late twenties—18 years her junior. “I don’t…