Bianca Lamblin (born Bienenfeld; 29 April 1921Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life, Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 170. – 5 November 2011Le Monde, 6 November 2011) was a French writer who had affairs with philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de BeauvoirContat, M. (2005). Sartre and his other women . Journal of Romance Studies. Volume 6 Numbers 1 & 2 2006 . page 119 for a number of years. In her book Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée (published in English as A Disgraceful Affair), she wrote that, while a student at Lycée Molière, she was sexually exploited by her teacher Beauvoir, who was in her 30s.Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée (1994, LGF – Livre de Poche; /2006, Balland; )Rodgers, N., & Thompson, M. (2005). Philosophers behaving badly. London: Peter Owen. In correspondence between Sartre and Beauvoir, the pseudonym Louise Védrine was used when referring to Bianca in Lettres au Castor and Lettres à Sartre.
Biography Bianca Lamblin was born in 1921 in Lublin, to Jewish parents. She was a cousin of the French writer Georges Perec. In 1937, her teacher was Simone de Beauvoir. She also met Sartre at this time. In Paris, Bianca was friends with Jean Kanapa, Yvonne Picard, Raoul Lévy and Bernard Lamblin. She married Bernard Lamblin and they had two children. Bianca became a teacher, and after Simone de Beauvoir's death, Bianca wrote Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée.
Bibliography Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée (1994, LGF – Livre de Poche; /2006, Balland; )
See also Olga Kosakiewicz Natalie Sorokin
References
Sources Jean-Paul Sartre (1983). Lettres au Castor et à quelques autres, tome 1 : 1926–1939. Paris: Gallimard. Simone de Beauvoir (1990). Lettres à Sartre, tome 1 : 1930–1939. Paris: Gallimard. Deirdre Blair (1991). Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Touchstone.