For many years she was France's favorite politician. She had been minister of Health and in charge of writing and defending the law allowing abortion in France, in the 70's. She was the first elected President of the European Parliament.
She was born and raised in Nice. Her birth occured 50 avenue Clémenceau in 1927, in a jewish family named Jacob. After the 1929 crisis the family had to move rue Cluvier.
She studied at the young girls high school, the lycée Calmette, until one day, during WWII, the directress told her that her coming to the high school was not "desired" any longer.
She was then hidden by a teacher of the Massena high school in her place, Palais de Nice, 28 boulevard Carabacel. Nonetheless she was arrested in the street in 1944 and was sent to the hotel Excelsior, the headquarter where the SS organised the hunt for Jews in Nice, before she was transferred to Drancy and then Auschwitz. She survived and came back.
She died in 2017.
Her corpse was transferred to the Panthéon in Paris in 2018, the monument where France honors its most distinguished children.
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