Simone Veil is the last French heroine

Just one year after his death, Simone Veil entered the National Pantheon in Paris, becoming the most remarkable French citizen. "With Simone Veil, generations of women who built France, without the country giving them the recognition and freedom they owed," said Emmanuel Macron, who presided over the ceremony.

Simone Veil died on June 30, 2017, at the age of 89, and the speed with which the process of access to the Pantheon took place contrasts with the time required for the 76 other "great men" who Preceded at the entrance to the necropolis of the French state.In his official speech, the French president stressed that the decision to honor French politics was not only his, but "of all the French."

Around 10:30 am local time (less than an hour to Lisbon) The urns of Simone and her husband Antoine Veil left the Memorial at the Shoah in Paris, where for two days the French paid tribute to the two survivors of the Holocaust and death camps. The road to the pantheon is made on a long blue carpet, symbol of "peace, harmony between peoples and, of course, Europe," according to the official source of the Nazis. 39; Elysée cited by France Press.

Simone Veil was born in Nice, in the south of France. During the Nazi occupation, her entire family was sent to the extermination camp of Auschwitz, where only she and her sister would survive. Minister of Health, was responsible for the first project to decriminalize abortion in France. Between 1979 and 1982, she was the first woman to chair the European Parliament. He was also a member of the Constitutional Council of France, supreme organ of control of the respect of the fundamental law in the country.

Only one other couple appear in the French National Hall of Fame: the Pierre and Marie Curie scientists, the Nobel laureates and the inventors of radio X. The writers Victor Hugo, Emile Zola or Saint-Exupéry are also on the list, which also includes Louis Braille, Jean Jacques Rosseau or the hero of the French resistance Jean Moulin and the "father" of the European project Jean Monnet.