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Simone Veil 1927-, French politician. Interned in Nazi concentration camps during World War II because she was Jewish, she became a lawyer and government official. She served (1974-79) as minister of health under French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , securing the passage of a liberalized abortion law in 1974. Elected to the European Parliament in 1979, 1984, and 1989, she served (1979-82) as its first popularly elected president. From 1993 to 1995 she was French housing and urban and social affairs minister, and in 1998 she was appointed to the French Constitutional Council.

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