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 ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, a domineering and polarizing figure ... buoyed by his skills in oration. He founded the National Front party in 1972, a title it would hold until his daughter rebranded it ...

FILE – French far-right Front National former leader Jean-Marie Le Pen delivers a speech during the 15th congress of the party, in Lyon, central France, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014. (AP Photo ...

On the day of his death the founder of the National Front party was in a medical facility in Garches PARIS, January 7. /TASS/. Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the National Front party, now known as ...

PARIS (JTA) — A French court upheld the Holocaust denial conviction of the far-right activist Jean-Marie ... Tuesday against Le Pen, founder of the far-right National Front party.

French far-right National Front (FN) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen attends a May Day ceremony in front of the statue of Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) in Paris ...

The grave in western France of far-right movement cofounder Jean-Marie le Pen has been vandalized, his former party, National Rally, said on Friday, denouncing it as an “unspeakable” act. Le Pen, who ...

Marine Le Pen, the former leader of France's far-right National Rally (RN), has gone ... and her 96-year-old father and party founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in what Le Monde called a "decisive ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the Front National, gave the far right a visibility and longevity it had never known in contemporary France. His daughter Marine Le Pen took over in 2011 and renamed ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party Front National, has died. He was 96. His family confirmed the news in a statement sent to the AFP and said he died “surrounded by his ...

PARIS—Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French firebrand who rekindled far-right politics in the heart of Europe, has died at the age of 96. Le Pen’s health deteriorated in recent years, having been ...