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

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

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

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Before she died, in April 1986 – the day before the sixth anniversary of Sartre’s death – De Beauvoir, who never married or had children, formally adopted Le Bon to allow her to inherit her collection of unpublished correspondence, notebooks and manuscripts. Le Bon de Beauvoir, as she has since been known, says the adoption was a legal, not filial move. Le Bon de Beauvoir, however, disagrees. “It’s absurd to speak about a lesbian relationship [in the novel] when desire and the body are not involved. It was love. We can say that Simone loved Zaza but it is what we call a flamme, an ardour, the sort of sentiment in childhood that is so terribly important and marks the entry into adulthood,” she says. “Simone’s love for Zaza was nothing to do with sex. Nothing at all. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t intense.” Nothing prepared me for the drama I found,” she recalled. “An outpouring of projection, identification, expectation, disappointment and passion.”

I stammered something about how I did not wish to impose upon what I was sure would be a festive evening, so I had not brought any work materials with me. She snorted in derision. There was to be no celebration, she told me; her friend Sylvie would be coming later with something for dinner, but until then we should probably get started. I fished in my bag for something to write on and could find only my date book, so I pretended it was a notebook. What Bair achieved by writing great biography was to reach rather different heights from the rather pedestrian hills of normal academic life, even that of life at a top university. That is mostly because the biographies themselves turned out to have such reach.I never iron or mend my clothes. I send them to the cleaners. I don’t cook either. I’m not at all domesticated. This juicy account of celebrity romps through 300 years of stardom – touching on the coveted earlobes of a 19th-century ballerina and a three-year old who upstaged Liszt on his UK tour – as well as examining the economic cogs that drive celebrity and our hunger for it. Broken Greek by Pete Paphides ( Quercus)

The people who live in and around Paris are very different from those who live in other parts of France. Not only is their income higher and the median age of people in the city is younger than that of France as a whole (which is 41.1 years), but they also live very active lives and are fairly relaxed. One of the reasons that many people live in and around Paris is due to the high wages in the city. In the Parisian region, higher wages are normal, and people can make more money in the city doing a job than they can in the countryside doing the same field. The average household income in Paris is approximately 36,085 Euros, which is 60% higher than France's national average. However, wages fluctuate depending on the arrondissement around Paris. For example, median income in the 7th arrondissement is over 41,000 Euros. In general, people who live in the Western parts Paris make more money than those who live in other parts of the city. The story of how the celebrated feminist thinker, then in her 50s, met and became attached to a young philosophy undergraduate from Rennes 33 years her junior is in itself worthy of a novel. Le Bon was 17 and still at high school when she wrote to De Beauvoir, expressing her admiration and asking if they could meet. Later, after she moved to Paris to study, De Beauvoir invited her to her home, a two-floor artists’ studio in an art deco building in Rue Victor Schoelcher, in Paris’s 14th arrondissement. When she is again in dispute with her harassing mother and wishes to get out of a tedious family engagement, Andrée cuts a deep wound into her foot with an axe while chopping wood. That girl said you’re the best student in the class,’ she said, tilting her head a little at Lisette. ‘Is that true?’ how she had colluded with Sartre in the seduction of one of her pupils, Bianca Bienenfeld Lamblin—was much easier to understand…Gripping . . . In Parisian Lives, which reads much like a ‘making of…’ documentary, Bair gives us her off-camera take on her first two biographies. And, to our delight, we become voyeurs. Can this inexperienced young American tame these two monstres sacrés? Will she be hoodwinked by two larger-than-life writers who want to influence, manipulate, control, even censor her—even as, all the while, they appear to cooperate? . . . A story well told.” Our relationship was not at all mother and daughter,” she says. “She adopted me so I could manage her work after she died but this and the fact she was so much older prompted people to talk of her as my ‘mother’. At the beginning that annoyed me, but now I accept it. It’s not that important. In all of this intrigue, Bair retained a reporter’s savvy, as well as an academic’s rigour in getting near the truth. As a younger woman, all she had ever wanted was to be a journalist. By her mid-20s, trying to cope with deadlines and two small children, she determined her second vocation. She originally thought of calling this book The Accidental Biographer. One of the most infamous landmarks in Paris is the Eiffel Tower. Each year, the Eiffel Tower has almost 7 million visitors, and in 2010, the Eiffel Tower had its 250 millionth visitor. Paris Population Size



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