PARIS — Jean-Marie Le Pen ... 2012 French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen, during a campaign meeting in Marseille, southern France, Sunday, March 4, 2012. Credit: AP/Claude Paris Conservative rival Jacques Chirac went on to win in a landslide ...

Through five unsuccessful runs for president, Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France

Jean-Marie Le Pen,, the leader of the French Front National (FN) from 1972 to 2011, who has died aged 96, appeared for many years as a rumbustious, rackety and outrageous figure on the margins of French politics;

The founder of France's National Rally party, and father of Marine Le Pen, pioneered Trump-style populist, anti-immigrant politics.

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France ... 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 — was eventually estranged from his ...

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.

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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, the far-right politician who founded France’s National Front party, has died aged 96, according to local reports. One of France’s most divisive and influential political figures of the late 20th and early 21st centuries,

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.