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Simone Veil (French: [simɔn vɛj] ⓘ; née Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office.
Sibyle Petitjean was born on 26 September 1977, in Langres. Her father is an engineer and her mother is a psychologist. She spent a large part of her youth in Dijon. In 2006, she married Sébastien Veil, grandson of Simone Veil.
Meanwhile, her younger sister, Simone Veil, opted for a far more public life, becoming France's Minister of Health from 1974 to 1979 under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France. In 1973 and 1975, she played key roles in France's legalization of contraception and abortion.
Simone Veil, a French politician, and Holocaust survivor died at her home in Paris on Friday, her family said. She was 89 years old.
Veil was born on 28 August 1926 in Blâmont Commune, Meurthe-et-Moselle Department. [2] Veil died on 11 April 2013. [2] [3] On 5 July 2017, President of France Emmanuel Macron announced that the remains of Antoine Veil and his wife Simone Veil would be transferred to the Panthéon. [4]
In 2008, French politician Simone Veil became only the sixth woman ever inducted into the Académie Française, an august institution tasked with the regulation of the French language. As a newly ...
Olivier Dahan’s “Simone, A Woman of the Century” completes the trilogy he began with the Edith Piaf biopic “La Vie en Rose,” starring Marion Cotillard, and “Grace of Monaco ...
Simone Veil, A Woman of the Century (French: Simone, le voyage du siècle) is a French biographical drama film written and directed by Olivier Dahan. The film stars Elsa Zylberstein , Rebecca Marder , Olivier Gourmet and Elodie Bouchez .