French scholar Jacqueline de Romilly, an expert on ancient Greece who in 1988 became only the second woman to enter the Académie Française, died Saturday aged 97. President Nicolas Sarkozy called her "a great humanist whose voice we will miss".
Simone Veil, revered French champion of women's rights and Auschwitz survivor, has been invested as an "immortal" of the prestigious Académie Française.
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