PARIS — Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor and former health minister who championed France’s legalization of abortion, will be laid to rest in the Panthéon alongside dozens of the country’s most revered figures, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday.

The honor will make Ms. Veil, who died last week at 89, one of the few women placed in the Panthéon, which holds many of France’s greatest politicians, scientists and writers.

Mr. Macron made the announcement at a ceremony in Paris that paid tribute to Ms. Veil with military honors. He praised her for making France “better and more beautiful.”

“Just as you leave us, Madame, please receive the immense thanks of the French people to one of its much cherished children, whose example will never leave us,” Mr. Macron said in front of Ms. Veil’s coffin, which was draped with a French flag at the center of the Invalides courtyard.