Jean-Marie Le Pen was a polarising figure in French politics known for his fiery rhetoric that included Holocaust denial.

Il y a plus de vingt ans, Jean-Marie Le Pen, qui s’est éteint ce mardi 7 janvier à l’âge de 96 ans, accédait pour la première fois au second tour de la ...

Mr Le Pen's long political career was all about belligerence, anger, regret and scapegoats - but it would be wrong to write him off as merely an agitator.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was born on June 20 1928 at La Trinité ... This allowed the FN, with 9.8 per cent of the vote, to return 35 members. Jacques Chirac, who became prime minister in 1986, ended ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen a été finaliste de la présidentielle de 2002 face à Jacques Chirac. Le juriste malien Mahamadou Dianka se souvient : "C'était une grosse surprise à l'époque, parce que les ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen ... across Europe and beyond. Le Pen — who reached the second round of the 2002 presidential election that Jacques Chirac went on to win in a landslide victory ...

Conservative rival Jacques Chirac went on to win in a landslide victory with a record 82% of the vote. Jean-Marie Le Pen has been convicted on numerous occasions by the French courts, including ...

The founder of France's National Rally party, and father of Marine Le Pen, pioneered Trump-style populist, anti-immigrant politics. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Jean-Marie Le Pen ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, décédé mardi à l'âge de 96 ans, a été inhumé samedi après-midi dans le cimetière de sa ville natale de la Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan), à l'issue d'une messe célébrée dans la plus ...

Founder of the far-right National Front party Jean-Marie ... in 2002, Le Pen provoked a political earthquake by making it into the runoff round against incumbent Gaullist Jacques Chirac, winning ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front party who campaigned against ...