Claudine Monteil (born 1949) is a French writer,

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st c ...

specialist, historian, and a former French diplomat.

Biography

Monteil's mother, Josiane Serre, was a chemist who became the director of the

École normale supérieure de jeunes filles The ''École normale supérieure de jeunes filles'' (also, ''École normale supérieure de Sèvres'') was a French institute of higher education, in Sèvres, now a commune in the suburbs of Paris. The school educated girls only, especially as te ...

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Her father is

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians, International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place e ...

and Abel Prize winning mathematician

Jean-Pierre Serre Jean-Pierre Serre (; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954, the Wolf Prize in 2000 and the inau ...

. Monteil holds a Ph.D. on the study of

Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she ...

's writings and life. Monteil is one of the founders of the French

women's rights movement Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st c ...

in 1970 and one of the signatories of the

Manifesto of the 343 The Manifesto of the 343 Women () is a French petition penned by Simone de Beauvoir, and signed by 343 women, all publicly declaring that they had had an illegal abortion. The manifesto was published under the title, "" (), on 5 April 1971, in iss ...

. She authored several works on Simone de Beauvoir. While working on women's rights, she was a long close friend of Beauvoir,

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism, literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th ...

, and Beauvoir's sister, the painter

Hélène de Beauvoir Henriette-Hélène de Beauvoir (; 6 June 1910 – 1 July 2001) was a French painter. She was the younger sister of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. During World War II she received a visa in Bordeaux from Portuguese consul general Aristides de So ...

. Her writings on the Beauvoirs, Sartre, and

French feminism Feminism in France is the history of Feminism, feminist thought and movements in France. Feminism in France can be roughly divided into three waves: First-wave feminism from the French Revolution through the French Third Republic, Third Republic ...

have been translated into multiple languages.Simone de Beauvoir and the women's movement in France: An eye-witness account
, by Claudine Monteil Claudine Monteil has been a retired French diplomat since the end of 2014. She has been working at the

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on different issues, including the relations between France and institutions of the

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as, among others,

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, and

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. In 2016, she published the first biography on

Ève Curie Ève Denise Curie Labouisse (; December 6, 1904 – October 22, 2007) was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie a ...

, youngest daughter of

Pierre Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

and

Marie Curie Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was List of female ...

, who was a hero of World War II.

Bibliography

* ''Simone de Beauvoir, modernité et engagement'' éditions L'Harmattan, "Simone de Beauvoir, modern and committed" *''Simone de Beauvoir, côté femme, Timée-éditions'' () - translated into

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and

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*''Les Sœurs Beauvoir'' (English: The Beauvoir Sisters) - translated in

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, Chinese and Italian. *''Les Amants de la liberté, Sartre et Beauvoir dans le siècle'' (English: ''The Lovers of Freedom, Sartre and Beauvoir in the Century'') - translated into

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, Portuguese,

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, Japanese, Chinese,

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and Turkish *''Simone de Beauvoir le mouvement des femmes, mémoires d'une jeune fille rebelle'' (English: ''Simone de Beauvoir the women's movement, memories of a girl rebel'') - translated into Japanese and Swedish. *''Les Amants des Temps Modernes, Oona et Charles Chaplin'' (English: ''Lovers of Modern Times: Oona and Charles Chaplin'') - translated into Greek and Portuguese. *''Simone de Beauvoir, modernité et engagement'' ("Simone de Beauvoir, modernity and commitment") éditions L'Harmattan, Paris, 2009. *''Complots mathématiques à Princeton'' ("Mathematical plots in Princeton") Odile Jacob publishing house,(thriller), Paris,2010. * ''Simone de Beauvoir et les femmes aujourd'hui'' (by-line, "Simone de Beauvoir and women today") Editions Odile Jacob, Paris 2011 * ''Eve Curie, l'autre fille de Pierre et Marie Curie'' (by-line "Eve Curie, the other daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie"), Editions Odile Jacob, 2016

References

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1949 births Living people French feminists French women's rights activists French women writers Simone de Beauvoir Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 {{feminism-activist-stub