1909
February 3, born in Paris
1925
Earned Baccalaureate in Philosophy from Lycée Henri IV
1928
Accepted into L'Ecole Normale Supérieure
1929
Publishes first articles in Libres Propos (edited by Alain)
1931
Passes Agrégation and begins teaching at girl’s school in Le Puy-en-Vélay
1931
Becomes active with trade unions and participates in worker demonstrations
1932
1933
Dismissed from Auxerre and transferred to Roanne
1933
Meets with Leon Trotsky at her parents' home in Paris
1934
Works at the Elektro-Firma Alshom factory as a drill-press operator, at the Boulogne-Billancourt as a packer, and as a machinist at the Renault factory
1935
Vacation in Portugal, where she is overwhelmed by the songs sung by Portuguese women and turns toward Christianity
1935
Teaches at Lycée in Bourges and starts Entre nous, a journal produced and authored by factory workers
1936
Despite her pacifist convictions, she volunteers in Spanish Civil War; she is burned by cooking oil and returns to France to receive proper medical treatment
1937
Appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Lycée Saint-Quentin
1938
Easter at the Abbey of Solesmes she is overcome by the beauty of the Gregorian chants
1938
Has mystical experience while reciting George Herbert's poem, "Love (III)"
1939
Revises her stance on pacifism when German troops enter Prague
1939
Took sick leave from teaching and travels to Italy; she never teaches again
1940
Studied Sanskrit and the Bhagavad Gītā
1940
June 30, Weil and her parents flee Paris to Vichy day before German troops seize the city
1940
Under pseudonym, Émile Novis, she published articles in Cahiers du sud, her most famous being "The Illiad or the Poem of Force"
1941
Met Father Joseph-Marie Perrin and began working on the farm of Gustave Thibon; she entrusted her Cahiers to the latter (which he published selctions from posthumously as Pesanteur et la Grâce) and her Spiritual Autobiography to the former
1942
With her parents, she left France and arrived in New York
1942
In November Weil set out on return to France where she intended to participate in the Resistance
1943
Soon after her arrival in London presumably before moving on to France—Weil grew ill and in April 1943 was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis
1943
She resided at Ashford Sanatorium in Kent during her recovery, but refused to take any more rations than what was allowed her compatriots under German occupation in France
1943
August 24, Weil dies; after three days, the coroner ruled that the cause of her death was 'suicide'
1943
Weil is buried at Ashford Cemetery
"In 1942, Simone Weil joined the Provisional French Government in London but developed tuberculosis and died in Grosvenor Sanatorium, Ashford. Her writings have established her as one of the foremost modern philosophers."
--from the homepage of the American Weil Society.
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