de Beauvoir (French d? bovwar) n (Biography) Simone (sim?n). 1908?86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le sang des autres (1944), Le deuxième sexe (1949), and Les mandarins (1954)Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014de Beau?voir (d? bo?v?w?r; Fr. d? bo??vwar) n. Si?mone (si?m?n) 1908?86, French writer. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.