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Paperback. Pub Date: 2001 Pages: 368 Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century. Memoirs of a dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of Growing up in a bourgeois French family. rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class. and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life. from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne. where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.