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Simone Veil, born Simone Jacob on July 13, 1927 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) and died on June 30, 2017 in Paris, is a French magistrate and stateswoman.
Born into a Jewish family with Lorraine origins, she was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16, during the Shoah, where she lost her father, her brother and her mother. A survivor with her sisters Madeleine and Denise, also deported, Simone Jacob married Antoine Veil in 1946. After studying law and political science, she entered the judiciary as a senior civil servant.
In 1974, she was appointed Minister of Health by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who charged her with adopting the law decriminalizing the use of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion), a law which would then be commonly referred to as the " Veil law”. She therefore appears as an icon of the fight against discrimination against women in France.
She was the first president of the European Parliament — newly elected by universal suffrage — a position she held from 1979 to 1982. Generally speaking, she is considered one of the promoters of Franco-German reconciliation and the construction European.
From 1993 to 1995, she was Minister of State, Minister of Social Affairs, Health and the City in the Édouard Balladur government. She sat on the Constitutional Council from 1998 to 2007, before being elected to the French Academy in 2008.
