Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre [9min]

In her classic feminist manifesto, The Second Sex, written in 1949, Simone de Beauvoir wrote a chapter on what happens to women when they fall in love. Everything, suddenly, revolves around the new man in her life -- they abandon own judgement, even their entire life -- to him. Beauvoir’s own relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre was, famously, an unconventional one. So what was the relationship between the writings of this prolific couple, and their real lives? Guest Hazel Rowley is the author of Tete-a-Tete: The Lives and Loves of Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (Chatto & Windus).