Simone Veil remembered by Robert Badinter

13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017
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Simone Veil and I were born just a few months apart, in the late 1920s. Both teenagers during the war, we shared the same sensibility and convictions even though we didn’t belong to the same political family. But even more than I admire the politician, I admire the woman. I lost my father