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27/10/2017 GMT

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How Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir met and fell in love in Paris in October 1929

French feminist and writer Claudine Monteil recalls her friends, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who first met and fell in love in Paris in October 1929.

In October 1929 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir began their fifty-year love affair after meeting in Paris. Louise Hidalgo speaks to the writer and leading French feminist, Claudine Monteil, who knew Sartre and de Beauvoir, about their legendary status and their famously open relationship.

Photo: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre sitting in a cafe in Paris, 1970. (STF/AFP/Getty Images)

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