'Spreading like poison': flurry of antisemitic acts alarms France
Bagel bakery targeted, swastikas drawn on postboxes and memorial tree chopped down
July 2018
Thousands attend Simone Veil's burial in Paris Panthéon
Revered politician only fourth woman to be honoured in her own right with hero’s burial
June 2018
France pays tribute to Simone Veil with hero’s burial in the Panthéon
Holocaust survivor, former minister and EU president is only fifth woman to be laid to rest in Paris’s secular mausoleum
December 2017
The Observer's obituaries of 2017
Simone Veil remembered by Robert Badinter
The former justice minister and fellow Holocaust survivor recalls the French politician who became a symbol of forgiveness
July 2017
Farewell Simone Veil, conscience of France
Agnès Poirier
French rights champion Simone Veil given coveted place in Panthéon
June 2017
Simone Veil obituary
Simone Veil, Auschwitz survivor and abortion pioneer, dies aged 89
March 2011
My hero
My hero: Simone Veil by Marie Darrieussecq
My hero: Marie Darrieussecq on Simone Veil
April 2009
Critical eye
Love in a complex climate
A Bloomsbury biography, a concentration camp survivor and a novelist's life entwined with jigsaws
March 2009
A Frenchwoman and feminist nonpareil
Review: A Life by Simone Veil The life story is a debased genre, but occasionally someone writes one who actually has something to say writes Denis MacShane
