What is Simone Veil?
{{Infobox officeholder | name =Simone Veil | honorific-suffix =[[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] | image =Simone Veil, gymnase Japy 2008 02 27 n5.jpg | order =12th | office =President of the European Parliament | term_start =July 1979 | term_end =1982 | vicepresident = | predecessor =[[Emilio Colombo]] | successor =[[Piet Dankert]] | birthname =Simone Annie Liline Jacob | birth_date ={{birth date |df=y|1927|07|13}} | birth_place =[[Nice]], France | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|6|30|1927|7|13|df=y}} | death_place = [[Paris]], France | party =[[Union for French Democracy|UDF]] <small>(1995-1997)</small> <br />[[Union of Democrats and Independents|UDI]] <small>(Since 2012)</small> | spouse =Antoine Veil | profession =Lawyer, politician | order2 =[[Minister of Health (France)|Minister of Health]] | term_start2 =27 May 1974 | term_end2 =4 July 1979 | president2 =[[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]] | primeminister2 =[[Jacques Chirac]]<br>[[Raymond Barre]] | predecessor2 =[[Michel Poniatowski]] | successor2 =[[Michel Poniatowski]] | term_start3 =29 March 1993 | term_end3 =18 May 1995 | president3 =[[François Mitterrand]] | primeminister3 =[[Edouard Balladur]] | deputy3 =[[Philippe Douste-Blazy]] | predecessor3 =[[Bernard Kouchner]] | successor3 =[[Elisabeth Hubert]] |}} '''Simone Veil''', [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] ({{IPA-fr|simɔn vɛj|-|Fr-Simone Veil.ogg}}; 13 July 1927 &ndash; 30 June 2017) was a [[French people|French]] lawyer and politician. She served as [[Minister of Health (France)|Minister of Health]] under [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]], [[President of the European Parliament]] and member of the [[Constitutional Council of France]]. She was awarded the Grand Cross of the [[Legion of Honor|Légion D'Honneur]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|date=10 September 2012|title=Simone Veil faite grand'croix de la Légion d'honneur|trans-title=Simone Veil made Grand Cross of the L