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Simone Veil, iconic figure of the 20th century and a role model for millions, died on June 30th, 2017. She is back in the news once more after the release of Olivier Dahan’s film, Simone, le voyage du siecle, in which she is portrayed by two actresses, Rebecca Marder, (young Simone) and Elsa Zylberstein, (Simone aged 36 to 87). Both are excellent, but it is Zylberstein who is remarkable through her physical and psychological reincarnation of her character. The actress immersed herself in the role for a year, putting on 9 kilos, walking like Veil, talking like her, reading what she’d written.
‘I wanted her soul to be at my side,’ she explained (‘je voulais que son âme m’accompagne’).
Watching the film last week reminded me just how much a sorely fractured France, indeed a sorely fractured world, needs leaders of her stature. In a reminder of what she achieved, I’m reposting below extracts from the blog I wrote shortly after her death: Portrait of a great lady, July 13th 2017.
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‘Nousvous aimons, Madame.’
With three simple words, ‘we love you’, Jean D’Ormesson, in 2010, welcomed Simone Veil to the ‘temple of the French language’, the Académie Française. On June 30th this year, as news of her death broke in France, his sentiment was echoed in the
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Simone Veil
Simone Veil was born in 1927 on the 13th of July to an atheist Jewish family in Nice, France, as Simone Jacob. Her father, André, had a degree in architecture and married his wife, Yvonne, who had a high school diploma in science. André and Yvonne had four children: Madeleine, Denise, Jean, and finally, Simone. Veil mentioned in an interview that she believed that finishing her high school exams on the 28th of March 1944, caused the Gestapo, which was the official secret police of Nazi Germany, to arrest her and her family two days later. This was because she had to give her name and address in order to complete the exams. At just 17 years old, she and her family were sent to the concentration and extermination camps Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen. Veil and her two sisters survived; however, her parents and brother died in the camps.
In May 1945, after the liberation, Veil went back to Paris and began her studies in law at the University of Paris. Then, she enrolled into political science studies at the Institut d’études politiques. There, she met her husband Antoine Veil whom she married in 1946 and with whom she had three children: Jean, Nicolas, and Pierrre-François.
At this time, Veil had practised law for several years, and in 1954 she took
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