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19th April 1986: Funeral of French novelist, existentialist and forerunner of the feminist movement Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. (Photo by Remy Deluze/Keystone/Getty Images)

19th April 1986:  Funeral of French novelist, existentialist and forerunner of the feminist movement Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.  (Photo by Remy Deluze/Keystone/Getty Images)