Question: What nationality was de Beauvoir?

Is After a visit to Brasilia, the French writer Simone de Beauvoir complained that all of its superquadras exuded "the same air of elegant monotony," and other observers have equated the city's large open lawns, plazas, and fields to wastelands. a good answer to this question?

Available choices:
(a). yes;
(b). no;
(a).