Beauvoir
Appearance
Beauvoir may refer to:
People
[edit]- Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks (1887–1971), British aviator
- Jean Beauvoir, American musician
- Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, birth name of British actress Joan Fontaine (1917–2013)
- Richard Benyon De Beauvoir (1769–1854), British Member of Parliament
- Roger de Beauvoir (1806–1866), pen name of French writer, Eugène Auguste Roger de Bully
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French author, philosopher, and feminist
- Hélène de Beauvoir (1910–2001), French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir
Places
[edit]France
[edit]- Beauvoir, Manche
- Beauvoir-de-Marc
- Beauvoir-en-Royans
- Beauvoir, Seine-et-Marne
- Beauvoir-Wavans
- Saint-Hilaire-de-Beauvoir
- Beaurevoir (formerly Beauvoir), Aisne
United Kingdom
[edit]- De Beauvoir (ward), a ward in the London Borough of Hackney
- De Beauvoir Town, a district in North London, England
Other uses
[edit]- Beauvoir (Biloxi, Mississippi), post-American Civil War home of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States
- Pontikokastro, a castle in southern Greece, known as Beauvoir by the Frankish Crusaders
- Beauvoir, an elementary school in Washington, D.C.; see National Cathedral School
See also
[edit]- Belvoir (disambiguation), a synonymous name
- Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir, a pedestrian bridge across the Seine River in Paris, France