Kurt Weil

SIMONE WEIL

Simone Weil was born in Paris in 1909 of Jewish parents. She died in England in 1943 while serving the DeGaulle Free French movement. Weil was early preceived as a prodigal. She played Greek word games with her brother Andre, later a famous mathme- tician, before she was a teen ager. She specialized in philosophy in the French university ystem and graduating taught st a variety of