Beauvoir

Beauvoir can refer to any of the following:

Buildings/Homes/Plantations

• "Beauvoir", in Biloxi, Mississippi, post-American Civil War home of Jefferson Davis, (1807/08-1889), only President of the Confederate States, (1861-1865), facing the Gulf Coast of the Gulf of Mexico
• Pontikokastro, a castle in southern Greece, known as Beauvoir by the Frankish Crusaders

People

• Jean Beauvoir, American musician.
• Richard Benyon De Beauvoir (1769-1854), British Member of Parliament.
• Roger de Beauvoir (1806-1866), pen name of French writer, Eugène Auguste Roger de Bully.
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), French author, philosopher, and feminist.
• Hélène de Beauvoir (1910-2001), French painter and sister of Simone de Beauvoir.

Schools

• Beauvoir School, elementary school at National Cathedral School (at Washington National Cathedral of the Episcopal/Anglican Church) on Mount Saint Alban in northwest Washington, D.C.

Settlements

• One of several towns or communes of France:
  • Beauvoir, Manche
  • Beauvoir-de-Marc
  • Beauvoir-en-Royans
  • Beauvoir, Seine-et-Marne
  • Beauvoir-Wavans
  • Saint-Hilaire-de-Beauvoir
• De Beauvoir (ward), a ward in the London Borough of Hackney.
• De Beauvoir Town, a district in North London, England.

Others

• Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir, a pedestrian bridge across the Seine River in Paris, France