Bianca Lamblin, born Bianca Bienenfeld in Lublin, Poland, 29 April 1921 and died on November5, 2011 in Vitry-sur-Seine, is a French woman of letters and philosopher of Polish origin, wife of Bernard Lamblin and cousin of the writer Georges Perec.
Close to Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Bianca Lamblin describes her relationship with them in Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangee. The pseudonym chosen by Simone de Beauvoir to designate her in the Letters to the Beaver and some others is Louise Védrine.
Of Jewish parents, Bianca Bienenfeld left Poland with them at fifteen months for Paris, because of violent anti-Semitic currents. When she was six, her mother fell ill, and her father was often absent;
she and her sister were then entrusted to governesses. After municipal school, she attended the Lycée Molière (16th arrondissement) and the International Conservatory of Music of Paris, reads a lot, plays the piano.
In 1937, at the Lycée Molière, sixteen-year-old Bianca Bienenfeld fell under the spell and authority of her philosophy teacher, Simone de Beauvoir, with whom she became a friend, then a mistress, before Jean-Paul Sartre also became her lover. They form a "ménage à trois", a love configuration that Beauvoir and Sartre have already experienced with
Olga Kosakiewicz. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, with Jean Kanapa, Raoul Lévy and Bernard Lamblin.
In 1940, Sartre ended his relationship with the girl. Beauvoir also ended his romantic relationship with her, but maintained friendships with her until death.
In 1941, Bianca married Bernard Lamblin. During the German occupation, she moved to the free zone, had to live under a false identity, and witnessed clashes between the Resistance and the German army in the Vercors. She will be a professor of philosophy, and will raise her two daughters with her husband.
After the death of Simone de Beauvoir were published the Letters to Sartre, in which Bianca Lamblin is named Louise Védrine, and a biography of Beauvoir by Deirdre Bairwhich reveals the true identity of Louise Védrine. Bianca Lamblin, humiliated and hurt by what she discovered in these letters, responded to Beauvoir's posthumous writings with an autobiography entitled Memoirs of a Deranged Girl. She describes how Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre allegedly abused her at the age of seventeen and writes: "I discovered that Simone de Beauvoir drew from her classes of young girls a fresh flesh which she tasted before passing it on, or should we say even more crudely, to bring it back to Sartre. "
Bianca Lamblin and Simone de Beauvoir
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