Bianca Lamblin

Bianca Lamblin (born Bienenfeld; 29 April 1921[1] – 5 November 2011[2][3]) was a French writer who had affairs with philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir[4] for a number of years.[5][6][7][8] 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.[9][10][5][7] In correspondence between Sartre and Beauvoir, the pseudonym Louise Védrine was used when referring to Bianca in Lettres au Castor and Lettres à Sartre.[5][7]

Biography

Bianca Lamblin was born in 1921 in Lublin, to Jewish parents. She was a cousin of the French writer Georges Perec.[3] 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.[5] Bianca became a teacher, and after Simone de Beauvoir's death, Bianca wrote Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée.[5]

Bibliography

• Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée (1994, LGF – Livre de Poche; ISBN 978-2253135937/2006, Balland; ISBN 978-2-7158-0994-9)

See also

• Olga Kosakiewicz
• Natalie Sorokin

References

1. Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life, Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 170.
2. Le Monde, 6 November 2011
3. "Bulletin n° 59: Éditorial" (in French). Association George Perec. 10 December 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
4. Contat, M. (2005). Sartre and his other women . Journal of Romance Studies. Volume 6 Numbers 1 & 2 2006 ISSN 1473-3536. page 119
5. Riding, Alan (April 14, 1996). "The Odd Couple". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
6. Gorog, Françoise (2011). "Simone de Beauvoir et les impasses de la vie amoureuse" (PDF). Revista Borromeo (in French) (2). Instituto de Investigaciones en Psicoanálisis Aplicadas a las Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
7. Labosse, Lionel (25 October 2011). "Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée, essai autobiographique de Bianca Lamblin" (in French). Altersexualité.com. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
8. "Klassisches Dreieck" (in German). Der Spiegel. 9 August 1993. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
9. Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée (1994, LGF – Livre de Poche; ISBN 978-2-253-13593-7/2006, Balland; ISBN 978-2-7158-0994-9)
10. Rodgers, N., & Thompson, M. (2005). Philosophers behaving badly. London: Peter Owen.

Sources

• Jean-Paul Sartre (1983). Lettres au Castor et à quelques autres, tome 1 : 1926–1939. Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-026078-2
• Simone de Beauvoir (1990). Lettres à Sartre, tome 1 : 1930–1939. Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 2-07-071829-8
• Deirdre Blair (1991). Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Touchstone. ISBN 978-0-671-74180-8