France pays tribute to Veil, Holocaust survivor with Pantheon burial
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PARIS (Reuters) – France paid homage on Sunday to Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor best known for legalising abortion in the 1970s as she joined the country’s great citizens interred in the Pantheon in Paris.