PARIS(Reuters) -Jean-Marie Le Pen ... lost by a landslide to Jacques Chirac. Voters backed a mainstream conservative rather than bring the far right to power for the first time since Nazi ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... Jospin in the first round of voting, Jacques Chirac in the second round, the first time a far-right candidate had gotten that far. Le Pen was soundly defeated, with Chirac ...

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

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

PARIS — 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 — was ...

(Bloomberg) -- Jean-Marie Le Pen ... of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, propelling Le Pen into a runoff against President Jacques Chirac. The French political establishment closed ranks ...

French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died aged 96 ... He reached the presidential election-run off against Jacques Chirac in 2002. Le Pen's daughter, Marine, took over as party ...