Simone Veil to Be Laid to Rest in Panthéon, Among France’s Revered<br />He praised her for making France "better and more beautiful." "Just as you leave us, Madame, please receive the immense thanks of the French people to one of its much cherished<br />children, whose example will never leave us," Mr. Macron said in front of Ms. Veil’s coffin, which was draped with a French flag at the center of the Invalides courtyard.<br />By AURELIEN BREEDENJULY 5, 2017<br />PARIS — Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor and former health minister who championed France’s legalization of abortion, will be laid<br />to rest in the Panthéon alongside dozens of the country’s most revered figures, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday.<br />Mr. Macron said that Ms. Veil’s family had agreed to the placement in the Panthéon and<br />that she would be laid to rest with her husband, Antoine, who died in 2013.<br />The honor will make Ms. Veil, who died last week at 89, one of the few women placed in the<br />Panthéon, which holds many of France’s greatest politicians, scientists and writers.<br />that This tribute is your ultimate victory on the death camps,
