Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...

A polarising figure in French politics, his controversial statements led to multiple convictions and strained his political ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France’s postwar far-right movement, has died at the age of 96, according to French network BFMTV. From founding the ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has died aged 96, was a major figure in French public life, and a founder of the far-right National Front. A sometimes violent rabblerouser who claimed, like other ...

Experts argue the French rightwing leader's newfound distance from the U.S. president represents the growing legitimacy of ...

He ran unsuccessfully for the French presidency five times, riding waves of discontent and xenophobia as the leader of the National Front party. By Robert D. McFadden Jean-Marie Le Pen ...

The extremist founder and former president of the National Front has died at 96. By David Broder Announcing Jean-Marie Le Pen’s death at age 96 on 7 January, Jordan Bardella expressed only respect: ...

The church Notre-Dame du Val de Grace, in Paris, has been the scene of the tribute with a religious ceremony to the founder ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and ...

and kicked out Mr. Le Pen in 2015. Three years later, the party changed its name (it had originally been called the National Front) as part of an effort to soften its image, gain distance from her ...

Then known as the National Front, the party Le Pen co-founded in 1972 was the latest incarnation of a political current that rejected the French Revolution, despised the Republic, embraced anti ...