Jean and Castor now lie side by side for eternity. Both the center of the intellectual society, they each produced novels, essays and monographs especially of the political kind. One was even awarded the Nobel Prize, which was famously declined. The other won the highest literary prize in the country. Theirs was a liberal, even scandalous affair, but if people only knew to what extent. A ménage à quatre was reduced to a ménage à trois in a fictionalized account of their relationship. By one reading, it could have been a ménage à cinq. Who are they and where are they now?

zbeckabee

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir are both buried in Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. On the grave - also the last resting place of Sartre's lifelong "companion" Simone de Beauvoir - there was an anonymous, scribbled note: "To JPS and SB, for your sincere writing and for the meaning you gave to life. Thank you for leaving your mark on history." While at the Sorbonne, Beauvoir acquired her lifelong nickname, Castor, the French word for "beaver" given to her because of the animal's strong work ethic and the resemblance of her surname to the English word "beaver". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-second-coming-of-sartre-752548.html http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Sartre-J.html Aug 15 08, 9:50 PM

lanfranco

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, aka "Castor," lie side by side in the Cimitiere de Montparnasse in Paris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir Aug 15 08, 9:52 PM

edmund80

Excellent work! Jean-Paul Sartre the existentialist philosopher, among other things, refused the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature ( though he later tried to get the award money ). Simone de Beauvoir won the Prix Goncourt, the highest literary prize in France for " The Mandarins ". Her novel " She Came to Stay " is a fictionalized account of her relationship with Sartre and two sisters, both of whom Sartre pursued and one of whom later married Beauvoir's lover Bost. Castor was de Beauvoir's nickname. They are indeed both buried at Cimetière de Montparnasse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Tombe_de_Sartre_et_Beauvoir.jpg Aug 15 08, 10:02 PM