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| A selection of Beauvoir’s letters to Leduc between 1945 to 1972. |
Simone de Beauvoir's 'remarkable' letters to Violette Leduc sold at auction
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Sotheby’s, which sold the 297 letters, says they reveal ‘a complex and ambiguous relationship where unrequited passion and mistrust mingle’
Wedenesday 16 December 2022
Almost 300 letters, mostly unpublished, from the influential feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir to the French novelist Violette Leduc, including The Second Sex author’s rejection of her friend’s romantic advances, have sold for €56,700 (£51,500).
