Original sentence: : Helene's fleeing from Paris as the Germans advanced is based on Beauvoir's own actions
Edited sentence: 267, 328.</ref> The following information is from Margaret Crosland, Simone de Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work (Heinemann, London, 1992) p.</ref>: Helene's fleeing from Paris as the Germans advanced is based on Beauvoir's own actions.Beauvoir used some of her own experiences for the novel