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From The Desk Of Simone De Beauvoir

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Who Did Simone de Beauvoir Inspire?
Posted: June 21, 2017
Category: From The Desk Of Simone De Beauvoir
In the installation From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir, visitors can consider the influence and intellect of writer Simone de Beauvoir in an interpretation of her Paris studio alcove. Museum...

What Did Simone de Beauvoir Write?
Posted: June 6, 2017
Category: From The Desk Of Simone De Beauvoir
In the installation From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir, visitors can consider the influence and intellect of writer Simone de Beauvoir in an interpretation of her Paris studio alcove. Museum...

What Did Simone de Beauvoir Read?
Posted: May 24, 2017
Category: From The Desk Of Simone De Beauvoir
In the installation From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir, visitors can consider the influence and intellect of writer Simone de Beauvoir in an interpretation of her Paris studio alcove....

What #BeauvoirSays to NMWA
Posted: May 15, 2017
Category: From The Desk Of Simone De Beauvoir
Visitors ask me why the National Museum of Women in the Arts has a dedicated installation to honor Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir was not an artist, not a patron, and...