“Memoirs of a Well-Brought-Up Girl” is the first of three memoir books written by the famous French writer Simone de Beauvoir. One of the most prominent French “feminists”, a friend and like-minded person of Sartre, a freedom-loving and independent nature, she gave rise to numerous rumors, legends and scandals that inevitably accompany the lives of famous people. The formation of an extraordinary personality, the intimate experiences of a teenage girl, the psychological problems of the transition to a new century, the reasons for the “existential melancholy” of the 40s and 50s, many events of the 20th century, seen and described sincerely and figuratively, in a living and precise language - this is what awaits the reader of “Memoirs” » Simone de Beauvoir.