Marine Le Pen has expressed regret for expelling her late father from the far-right party he founded.Le Pen admitted she would “never forgive herself” for removing her fatherJean-Marie Le Pen from National Front (FN),

He was known for his fiery anti-immigrant rhetoric that earned him both staunch support and widespread condemnation.

PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen paid tribute Wednesday to her father Jean-Marie, calling the founder of the National Front, who has died aged 96, a “warrior” in politics as ...

More than 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony on Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died earlier in January aged 96. The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grace church took place under tight security,

Jordan Bardella, RN party chief and the right-hand man of Marine Le Pen, said in a carefully-worded tribute that Jean-Marie Le Pen had "always served France". "As a soldier in the French army in Indochina and Algeria, as a tribune of the people in the ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right political party the National Front, has died aged 96, a senior party official has announced.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right National Front party and an unrepentant extremist on race, immigration and multiculturalism, has died aged 96. Le Pen had been in a care facility for several weeks and died at midday on Tuesday “surrounded by his loved ones”, the family said in a statement.

Controversy was Le Pen's constant companion: accusations of racism and antisemitism dogged the National Front from when he co-founded the party.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of France's main postwar far-right movement, was buried Saturday in a private ceremony in his native Brittany amid tight security.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front, was buried on Saturday. Le Pen died on Tuesday at the age of 96. Around 100 police officers were on duty for the funeral in La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany.

After the Axis powers’ defeat in World War II, many former Nazis and Vichyites recycled themselves as anti-communists. Jean-Marie Le Pen sought to rally such forces with radicalized conservatives in a common front against the red peril.