In 1943, de Beauvoir was suspended from her teaching job, due to an accusation that she had, in 1939, seduced her 17-year-old lycee pupil Nathalie Sorokine.
Nekdanja študentka Bianca Lamblin (prvotno Bianca Bienenfeld) je v svoji knjigi "Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée" zapisala, da jo je med študijem zlorabljala učiteljica Simone de Beauvoir, ki je bila takrat v svojih tridesetih.