The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) had a precocious gift for
sympathy—and more than a hint of masochism. She sought out the darkness
to escape the comfortable bourgeois life—the very model of assimilated
Third Republic French-Jewish success—into which she was born. When she
was ten years old, in 1919, she disappeared from her Paris apartment
only to be found marching down the Boulevard Saint Michel with striking
workers, singing/The Internationale/. On holiday before her last year at
the École Normale Superièure—where she would graduate first in her
cohort, ahead of Simone de Beauvoir—she toiled on a fishing trawler in
Normandy. In 1932, she went down a coal mine and was nearly shaken to
pieces when she tried the pneumatic drill.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-subversive-philosophy-of-simone-weil
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