Tete-a-Tete (29 page)

Jean-Paul and his mother, Anne-Marie Sartre (née Schweitzer).
Éditions Gallimard

Héne and Simone de Beauvoir with their mother, Françoise, at Meyrignac.
Sandro Agénor

René Maheu, at eighteen, in Toulouse.
Jean and Isabelle Maheu

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939, shortly before war broke out.
Gisèle Freund, Nina Beskow Agency

Olga Kosakiewicz, 1942-43, rehearsing for The Flies. (Studio Harcourt photo.)
Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

Jacques-Laurent Bost, around 1938.
Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

Beauvoir and Bianca Bienenfeld, Lycée Molière, 1938.
Bianca Bienenfeld Lamblin

Sartre with Nathalie Sorokine, 1941 or 1942.
Éditions Gallimard

Simone de Beauvoir in her room at the Hotel Louisiane, 1946.
Les films de l'équinoxe; fonds photographique Denise Bellon

Marie Olivier (Wanda) and Michel Vitold, rehearsing for Sartre's play
The Victors, 1946. Roger-Viollet

At the bar of the Pont-Royal, near Gallimard, in 1947. From left: Dolores Vanetti, Jacques-Laurent Bost, Jean Cau, Jean Genet, and Sartre.
Jacques de Poitier, Scoop, Paris Match

Sartre, Boris Vian, Michelle Vian, and Beauvoir at the Café Procope, around 1948.
Yves Manciet/Rapho

Simone de Beauvoir, Chicago, 1950. Nelson Algren's friend, Chicago photographer Art Shay, had driven Beauvoir to a friend of his who had a bathroom. He writes: "She had taken her bath. It was while she fussed at the sink afterward that I had the sudden impulse. She knew I took it, because she heard the click of my trusty wartime Leica Model F. 'Naughty man,' she said."
Art Shay