Simone Weil

Life Outline

3rd February 1909	Simone Weil born in Paris.
1925	Enters Lycée Henri IV.
1928	Enters École Normale Supérieure.
1930	Weil's headaches begin.
1931	Starts teaching.
1932	Makes six week visit to Berlin.
1934	Writes Oppression and Liberty. Begins working in as factory.
1935	Holiday in Spain and Potugal.
1936	Weil enroles in the Anarchist Militia on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.
1938	Visit to Solesmes - first mystical experiences.
1940	Weil Family move to Marseilles.
1941	Begins notes books from which Gravity and Grace are taken. June - meets Fr Perrin. Works for Thibon. Writes most of Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks.
1942	Leaves France. Travels to America via Casablanca. Arrives in London in December.
1943	Writes The Need for Roots.
15th April 1943	Enters Middlesex Hospital.
24th August 1943	Dies in Ashford, Kent.