by Simone Veil · Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253127765
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«Une vie» is the autobiography of Simone Veil, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (352 pages, in French).
Simone Veil tells in the first person a life marked by deportation to Auschwitz, her career as a magistrate and her political trajectory in France and Europe. The book covers her childhood in Nice, her time at the Ministry of Health, the law that legalized voluntary termination of pregnancy and her election as the first president of the European Parliament.
Simone Veil was a member of the French Constitutional Council from 1998 to 2007 and was admitted to the Académie française in 2010; the back cover records her entry into the Panthéon with her husband on July 1, 2018.
For readers interested in French and European political history, feminism and the memoirs of twentieth-century public figures.
Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation. As minister of health, she championed women's rights and is best remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, known as the Veil Act.
