https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Holocaust survivor and women's rights icon Simone Veil will be given the rare honour of burial at the Pantheon in Paris on Sunday, a year and a day after her death at age 89. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180629/france-honours-rights-icon-simone-veil-with-coveted-pantheon-burial Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:59:28 +0200 france-honours-rights-icon-simone-veil-with-coveted-pantheon-burial French Holocaust survivor and rights icon Simone Veil, who died last year aged 89, will receive the rare honour of a burial in July at the Pantheon in Paris, the president's office said Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180220/french-womens-rights-champion-simone-veil-set-for-rare-pantheon-burial-in-july Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:07:40 +0100 french-womens-rights-champion-simone-veil-set-for-rare-pantheon-burial-in-july French Holocaust survivor and women's rights icon Simone Veil will be buried in the Pantheon mausoleum alongside many other great French figures, the French president announced on Wednesday during a service in homage to "France's most admired woman". https://www.thelocal.fr/20170705/french-womens-rights-champion-simone-veil-to-be-buried-in-pantheon Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:48:42 +0200 french-womens-rights-champion-simone-veil-to-be-buried-in-pantheon More than 120,000 people have signed two French petitions calling for Simone Veil, the women's rights icon who was hailed as "the best of France" upon her death on Friday, to be interred in the Pantheon. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170702/bury-simone-veil-in-the-pantheon-french-petition-demands Sun, 02 Jul 2017 12:16:45 +0200 bury-simone-veil-in-the-pantheon-french-petition-demands After three years of renovation work, the top platform of the Pantheon in Paris is finally open to the public again. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160401/pantheon-dome-reopens-after-renovation Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:34:25 +0200 pantheon-dome-reopens-after-renovation City chiefs in Paris have approved a plan to give seven major squares in the French capital a massive revamp to make way for pedestrians, cyclists and more greenery. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160330/paris-gives-green-light-for-revamp-of-historic-squares Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:33:07 +0200 paris-gives-green-light-for-revamp-of-historic-squares Four heros of the French Resistance will be honoured with a burial at the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris on Wednesday. Although two of the coffins will remain empty after objections from family members. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150527/france-honours-resistance-heros-pantheon Wed, 27 May 2015 10:24:55 +0200 france-honours-resistance-heros-pantheon France's attempts to improve égalité in its famous Pantheon mausoleum have hit a snag after the families of two female French resistance fighters refused to let their remains be exhumed for the honorary burial. However authorities have decided to go ahead and bury their empty coffins. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150316/panthon-to-bury-empty-womens-coffins Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:49:00 +0100 panthon-to-bury-empty-womens-coffins France is set to move the remains of two women Resistance fighters to the Pantheon, its monument to great national figures, after an outcry developed about its lack of women interred there. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140220/women-resistance-fighters-to-get-french-honors Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:04:00 +0100 women-resistance-fighters-to-get-french-honors Who do you think should join Voltaire and Victor Hugo among the ranks of the greatest French men and women? That’s the question authorities are asking the public for the first time, as they try to decide who to bury next in the prestigious Pantheon mausoleum in Paris. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130827/french-public-set-to-vote-on-pantheon-honour Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:12:00 +0200 french-public-set-to-vote-on-pantheon-honour