Beauvoir ranked second to Sartre in the philosophy agrégation

Evidence

Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 0

Categorization

• CANDY: The younger-than-Sartre rank reversal between the two is a neat elevator anecdote.
• XREF: connects to: Beauvoir placed second to Sartre forever setting their precedence; The 1929 agrégation jury judged Beauvoir the more rigorous philosopher of the two — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 31
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Beauvoir placed second to Sartre forever setting their precedence; The 1929 agrégation jury judged Beauvoir the more rigorous philosopher of the two — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 31

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir placed second to Sartre forever setting their precedence #corroborates (0.95)