The sin or the sinner – a knotty question

The sin or the sinner – a knotty question Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre pictured in Beijing in 1955.

The legendary French feminist Simone de Beauvoir has been removed from a list of female candidates to be honoured in sculpture at Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library. When it emerged that De Beauvoir, who died in 1986, was accused of grooming young female students as lovers – whom she apparently passed on to her veteran…

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