Olympe De Gouges
Marie Gouze, known as Olympe de Gouges Listen, born May 7, 1748 in Montauban and died at the guillotine on November 3, 1793 in Paris, was a French woman of letters who became a politician. She is considered one of the French pioneers of feminism.Writer in 1791 of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen, she left many writings and pamphlets in favor of the civil and political rights of women and the abolition of black slavery. It is often taken as an emblem by movements for the liberation of women.
Simone Veil
Simone Veil, born Simone Jacob on July 13, 1927 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) and died on June 30, 2017 in Paris, was a French magistrate and stateswoman. Born into a Jewish family with Lorraine origins, she was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16, during the Holocaust, where she lost her father, her brother and her mother. Survivor with her sisters Madeleine and Denise, also deported. Simone Jacob married Antoine Veil in 1946 then, after studying law and political science, entered the judiciary as a senior civil servant. In 1974, she was appointed Minister of Health by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who tasked her with passing the law decriminalizing the use of voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG), a law which would then be commonly referred to as the " Veil law”. She therefore appears as an icon of the fight against discrimination against women in France. By decision of President Emmanuel Macron, Simone Veil entered the Pantheon with her husband on July 1, 2018.
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