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Simone Veil

Also known as Simone Jacob, Simone Annie Liline Jacob

French politician (1927–2017)

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Simone Veil was a French politician who lived from 1927 to 2017 and became one of France's most influential public figures of the late 20th century. She is particularly remembered for her role in legalizing abortion in France and for her long career dedicated to defending human rights and European integration.

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Pour mémoire
Pour résister
Handicap et citoyenneté au seuil de l'an 2000
Coeur de femmes
Simone Veil, mon héroïne

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Type: Person
Origin: United States

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2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
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Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution
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Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
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Ferroptosis: A Regulated Cell Death Nexus Linking Metabolism, Redox Biology, and Disease
· 2017 · cited 6,577x
Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018
· 2018 · cited 5,694x

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Commons category: Simone Veil
date of birth: 1927-07-13
name in native language: Simone Veil
date of death: 2017-06-30
IPA transcription: [simɔn vɛj]
birth name: Simone Annie Liline Jacob

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Simone Veil DBE ( French: [simɔn vɛj] ; née Simone Annie Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation. As minister of health, she championed women's rights and is best remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, known as the Veil Act (French: Loi Veil).

In 1979, Veil became the first woman elected President of the European Parliament, symbolising both her stature and her commitment to European integration as a guarantee of peace. She later served on France’s Constitutional Council (1998–2007), the country’s highest legal authority, and as president of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, where she contributed to Holocaust remembrance and education.