Simone Veil

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Simone Veil DBE (French pronunciation: ​[simɔn vɛj]; born 13 July 1927) is a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d’Estaing President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.A survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family she is the Honorary President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. She was elected to the Académie française in November 2008.

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active years end date

1979-07-04, 1995-05-18

active years start date

1974-05-27, 1993-03-29

birth date

1927-07-13

birth name

Simone Annie Liline Jacob

birth place

Nice

deputy

Philippe Douste-Blazy

order in office

Minister of Health, 12th, President of the European Parliament

party

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party, Union for French Democracy

president

François Mitterrand, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

prime minister

Édouard Balladur, Jacques Chirac, Raymond Barre

religion

Judaism

successor

Piet Dankert, Élisabeth Hubert, Michel Poniatowski