Journalist and minister Françoise Giroud, who died 21 years ago this week, was a forceful ambassador for women’s rights, intellect and ambition in post-war France. RFI looks back at her life and legacy.
The coffins of Holocaust survivor and former French health minister Simone Veil and her husband Antoine were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris on Sunday in a solemn ceremony honouring a figure "whose…