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Annual General Meeting at the House of Lords
FBS Book Prize​ 2017
​Hommage à Simone Veil

Guest Speakers: The Rt Hon Baroness Quin and Mrs Samia Essabaa
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Thursday 17 May 2018

Meeting: 7.00p.m.
AGM. Announcement of the FBS Book Prize winner 2017.
Hommage à Simone Veil: Short talks in English and in French from both speakers. Cocktail afterwards until 9.30p.m.


Committee Room G, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW
(Nearest tube: Westminster)

Tickets: £45.00 FBS Member ; £47.00 with Paypal 
 TIckets £50.00 FBS Member's guest ; £52.00 with Paypal          
(Please allow 30 minutes to clear Security; Photographic ID required)

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The Franco-British Society book prize-winner 2017 will be announced after the AGM.

Hommage à Simone Veil

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Simone Annie Liline Veil,DBE, French, née Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017 was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
A survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family during the Holocaust; she served as the first President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, from 2000 to 2007,and subsequently as Honorary President. She was elected to the Académie française in November 2008. She was best known for pushing forward the law legalizing abortion in France on 17 January 1975.


Our Guest Speakers are: The Rt Hon Baroness Quin and Mrs Samia Essabaa
Baroness Quin will talk about Simone Veil in her role as President of the European Parliament and also speak about her autobiography "Une Vie"'.
Mrs Samia Essabaa will talk about Simone Veil's work on diversity issues and in particular her support for such work in her school, the lycée professionnel Moulin-Fondu de Noisy-le Sec . She will also share some of her memories. 

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Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Baroness Quin, is a Labour party politician in the United Kingdom.
Joyce Quin was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School, and Newcastle University where she gained first class honours in French. She subsequently gained an M.Sc. in International Relations at the London School of Economics. She worked as a French language lecturer and tutor at the University of Bath and Durham University.
She served as Member of the European Parliament for Tyne South and Wear and Tyne and Wear successively from 1979 to 1989, and entered the House of Commons in the 1987 election as Member of Parliament for Gateshead East, she stayed until 2005.
Baroness Quin served as prisons minister, Minister for Europe, and as a junior agriculture minister. She asked to retire as a minister in 2001 to concentrate on her constituency interests.
In April 2006, it was announced that Quin had been nominated for a life peerage by the Labour Party. On 30 May, she was created Baroness Quin of Gateshead in the County of Tyne and Wear.
In November 2007, she was appointed Chair of the Franco-British Council (British Section). In 2010 she was awarded "Officier de la Legion d'Honneur" by the French Government. She was appointed a shadow Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs minister in May 2010 until July 2011.
She was the Vice-Chairman of the Franco-British Society until December 2017.
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 Samia Essabaa est professeur d’anglais au lycée professionnel Moulin-Fondu de Noisy-le-Sec (93), France.
Samia  a organisé un magnifique voyage de mémoire à Auschwitz le dimanche 4 février en hommage à Simone Veil. Elle a pu réunir 70 femmes de tous milieux sociaux et de toutes confessions ou laïques pour faire une cérémonie à la "Judenrampe", quai de déchargement par où est arrivée Simone à l'âge de 16 ans avec sa soeur Milou et sa mère Yvonne.
Vous pouvez voir les twits et les textes des femmes sur leur blog en tapant "Langage de femmes, Auschwitz 4 février" sur google et la page Facebook de l'association Langage de Femmes. Il y aura un article de 4 pages dans le magazine "Madame Figaro" le 9 mars prochain.
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Copyright: Samia Essabaa
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