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French Republican Guards carry the coffins of former French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil and her husband Antoine Veil as they walk on the rue Soufflot, leading to the Pantheon in Paris on July 1, 2018 during the burial ceremony. - Former Health Minister, Simone Veil, who passed away on June 30, 2017 became president of the European Parliament and one of France's most revered politicians by advocating the 1975 law legalising abortion in France. She will be only the fifth woman buried at the monument to France's dignitaries, where she will be laid to rest at the Pantheon with her husband Antoine, a high-ranking civil servant who died in 2013. (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP) (Photo credit should read GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images)