Beauvoir can refer to any of the following:
- Buildings
- Beauvoir (Biloxi, Mississippi), post-American Civil War home of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis
- People
- Jean Beauvoir, American musician.
- Richard Benyon De Beauvoir, British Member of Parliament.
- Roger de Beauvoir, pen name of French writer, Eugène Auguste Roger de Bully.
- Simone de Beauvoir (La Beauvoir), French author, philosopher, and feminist.
- Hélène de Beauvoir, French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir.
- Schools
- Beauvoir School, elementary school at National Cathedral School
- Settlements
- One of several towns or communes of France:
- Beauvoir-de-Marc
- Beauvoir-en-Royans
- Beauvoir, Seine-et-Marne
- Beauvoir-Wavans
- Saint-Hilaire-de-Beauvoir
- De Beauvoir (ward), a ward in the London Borough of Hackney.
- De Beauvoir Town, a district in North London, England.
- Others
- Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir, a pedestrian bridge across the Seine River in Paris, France
Famous quotes containing the word beauvoir:
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)
“All oppression creates a state of war.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)
“Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)