Ooh la la
A bridge in Paris has been named after feminist Simone de Beauvoir. Awesome.
Designed in the form of two steel intersecting curves, [the footbridge] is part of a regeneration effort in south-eastern parts of the French capital.This is the city's 37th bridge and the first to be named after a woman.
De Beauvoir is most-known for her groundbreaking book, The Second Sex.
My fave de Beauvoir moment recently? When in an article about manly man Harvey Mansfield, a writer from The Harvard Crimson identified Simone de Beauvoir as Simon.
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Rockin'! I love de Beauvoir. Already the corner on Blvd. Saint-Germain where Cafe Deux Magots is has been named Place Sartre-de Beauvoir, if I recall correctly.