One of the few French postwar politicians to earn near unanimous respect, Simone Veil, has died aged 89.
Deported from France by the Nazis aged 16, she survived Birkenau, although her mother and sister perished.
On her return to France she embarked upon a career in the law, becoming a magistrate, and in 1956 became
the Director of French prisons. Marking a break with her predecessors, she visited many such institutions
personally and railed at the primitive, "medieval" conditions she found th…
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