Simone Weil (In Our Time)
1943 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the French philosopher and social activist Simone Weil. Born in Paris in 1909 into a wealthy, agnostic Jewish family, Weil was a precocious child and attended the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, achieving the top marks in her class (Simone de Beauvoir came second).
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Around 1943
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)