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

As Marine Le Pen, Jean-Marie’s daughter and – at the time – campaign director, said on the night of the first round when asked how bad a defeat this was: “This is the victory of his ideas!” ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives Notre Dame du ...

The memorial for Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was known for his racist and antisemitic remarks, comes as the National Rally has ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen was deemed unfit to testify and eventually exempted from prosecution on health grounds. He was born June 20, 1928, in the Brittany village of Trinite-Sur-Mer. His father later ...

PARIS — 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 ...

By Robert D. McFadden Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France’s modern political far-right who built a half-century career on rants of barely disguised racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi ...

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 ...

FILE - Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File) FILE - Former ...