October 12, 1976: Simone de Beauvoir in her apartment. In the foreground, sculpture that reproduces Jean-Paul Sartre’s hands and that appear in the picture taken when she won the Prix Goncourt. Photo: Jacques Pavlovsky.

October 12, 1976: Simone de Beauvoir in her apartment. In the foreground, sculpture that reproduces Jean-Paul Sartre’s hands and that appear in the picture taken when she won the Prix Goncourt. Photo: Jacques Pavlovsky.