As a professor and writer who has followed and, in a way, shared France's evolution since the late 1960s, it seemed exactly right—a just national honoring of a noble life. At the same time, those familiar with France since the 1960s must feel a great melancholy. Veil's passing -- born in 1927, she died on June 30, 2017, at the age of 89 -- and Macron's deeply felt evocation of her importance in French national life, was like a bell tolling the passing of an era. There are not so many left of France's historic generation that came of age in the 1930s.
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