{"id":258648,"date":"2017-12-11T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=258648"},"modified":"2021-03-23T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:10:28","slug":"were-sartre-and-de-beauvoir-the-worlds-first-modern-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/were-sartre-and-de-beauvoir-the-worlds-first-modern-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Were Sartre and De Beauvoir the world\u2019s first modern couple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>A wonderful model of love and freedom!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Appignanesi looks at how the French philosophers remained committed to their open relationship \u2013 for more than 50 years.<br \/>\nIn 1929, the French philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir agreed to commit to an open relationship: one that lasted until Sartre\u2019s death in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDe Beauvoir had declared that whatever her many books and literary prizes, whatever her role in the women\u2019s movement, her greatest achievement in life was her relationship with Sartre,\u201d says the author Lisa Appignanesi in this film.<\/p>\n<p>She looks at how the writers and thinkers collaborated throughout their careers \u2013 and remained independent while continuing their conversation over decades.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>And if you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called \u201cIf You Only Read 6 Things This Week\u201d. A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Earth, Culture, Capital and Travel, delivered to your inbox every Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20171211-were-sartre-and-de-beauvoir-the-worlds-first-modern-couple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20171211-were-sartre-and-de-beauvoir-the-worlds-first-modern-couple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: A wonderful model of love and freedom! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":323680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}