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Authors: Simone De Beauvoir
French Existentialist philosopher, novelist, essayist, editor, and groundbreaking feminist
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
was born in Paris, where she lived most of her life. She was the author of the feminist classic
The Second Sex,
several volumes of autobiography, and highly acclaimed novels, including
The Mandarins,
winner of the Prix Goncourt.
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This book was originally published under the title M
ÃMOIRES D
'
UNE JEUNE FILLE RANGÃE
. It is reprinted here by arrangement.
MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER
. Copyright © 1958 by Gallimard, Paris. Translation © 1959 by The World Publishing Company. Foreword © 2005 by Hazel Rowley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published 2005.
ISBN-10: 0-06-082519-7 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-082519-5 (pbk.)
EPub Edition March 2016 ISBN 9780062566171
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Prime of Life,
p. 380.
*
Force of Circumstance
, p. 103.
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Force of Circumstance
, p. 459.
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
, p. 211.
â
All Said and Done
, p. 19.
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
, p. 142.
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Young royalists grouped round the royalist paper
L'Action Française
(Translator's note).
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From Gide's
Les Nourritures terrestres
(Translators note).
*
Usually spelt
cagne,
and meaning the class preparing to compete for entrance to the training-college for the professoriate (Translator's note).
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Slang term probably a contraction of â
talapoin
' (priest) (Translator's note).
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Here the author has confused the chapter headings to the third and the fifth of the
Méditations métaphysiques
: âDe Dieu, qu'il existe', and âDe l'essence des choses matérieiles, et, derechef de Dieu, qu'ilexiste' (Translator's note).
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The heavens are telling the glory of God.
