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The third volume of Simone de Beauvoir’s memoirs,1 on which much of this chapter is based, covers the period from August 1944 to March 1963. It begins with the Liberation and ends with meditations on old age and death. In a liberated Paris she participated in and witnessed what she calls ‘an orgy of brotherhood’.2 The streets were full of American soldiers, and everyone felt that Europe would soon be cleansed of fascism.
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© 1997 Joseph Mahon
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Mahon, J., Campling, J. (1997). The Historical Background to The Second Sex. In: Campling, J. (eds) Existentialism, Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376663_9
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