Marie Gicquel, edited by Laura Laplaud 2:54 p.m., March 22, 2022
Simone Veil is at the heart of a small exhibition at the city of the economy, the Citéco, in partnership with the weekly Paris Match, in Paris.
Entitled "Simone Veil, a European destiny", the exhibition explores the life of the political icon and his European political journey and is on view until October 31, 2022.
Citéco pays tribute to Simone Veil through a photographic exhibition from March 15 to October 31, 2022. The chronological tour is based on Paris Match
photographic archives
and sound extracts from the main speeches that marked the career of this exceptional woman, most of them from the bottom of Europe 1. In total, 16 immersive panels tell the fight of Simone Veil.
The intimate and the public linked by this exhibition
"I really like this photo, an image of peace, Simone Veil is on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice where everything is calm, she is with her sister with whom she will experience so many horrible things and her mother who will not survive ", says Xavier Limagne, museographer at the Cité de l'Économie about the first photograph in this hall.
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The exhibition parallels photographs from Simone Veil's family album, such as this hide-and-seek game with her grandchildren, and photographs from history books, such as her speech for the legalization of abortion in 1974. This intertwining between private and public reaches its climax with this close-up of her immortal sword.
"It's the most moving in my opinion," says Xavier Limagne.
“Her Academician sword on which she had Birkenau engraved and her registration number (concentration camps, editor’s note) and the two currencies, that of the European Union and that of France on the blade.”
A very last image embodies this exceptional destiny: her official portrait with her husband Antoine Veil, hung in the Pantheon when she entered in 2018.