Simone de Beauvoir De Beauvoir in 1967 Born Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (1908-01-09)9 January 1908 Paris, France Died 14 April 1986(1986-04-14) (aged 78) Paris, France Alma mater University of Paris (B.A., M.A.) Partner(s) Jean-Paul Sartre (1929–1980; his death) Nelson Algren (1947–64) Claude Lanzmann (1952–59) Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Continental philosophy Existentialism Existential phenomenology[1] French feminism Western Marxism Main interests Political philosophy Feminism Ethics Existential phenomenology Notable ideas "Ethics of ambiguity" Feminist ethics Existential feminism Influences Bergson Descartes Wollstonecraft Kant Hegel Husserl Kierkegaard Heidegger Leibniz Marx Nietzsche Sartre Sade Influenced Butler Camus Sartre Paglia Friedan Hoagland Rich Greer Kim Signature