The last thing far-right leader Marine Le Pen needed was another legal fire to break out for her Rassemblement National party ...

Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen reacts the statue of Joan of Arc, in Paris, on May 1, 2017.Thibault Camus / AP Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right ...

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 ...

Then, in 2002, Le Pen burst onto the frontline of French politics by edging Socialist Lionel Jospin in presidential elections to make the run-off against right-winger Jacques Chirac.

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.

Le Pen’s shock breakthrough in the 2002 presidential election, forcing socialist former French prime minister Lionel Jospin into third place, triggered a wave of protests and a moment of national ...

Le Pen took a different view and accused the Right of becoming left-wing (“Chirac is [Socialist leader Lionel] Jospin only worse”). In 1997, he raged against the Communists, “criminals, enemies of ...

A rabble-rouser who pandered to xenophobia, racism and resentment, Jean-Marie Le Pen was the founder of the National Front and a major figure in the right-wing movement in contemporary France.

Jean-Marie Le Pen is standing for election again at 78 French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was born in 1928 in the Brittany town of La Trinite-sur-Mer. He joined the Foreign Legion in 1954, ...

PARIS, Jan 8 — Jean-Marie Le Pen, an extreme right-winger who haunted the French political establishment for decades, died on Tuesday aged 96, dividing opinion until the end. While the left decried ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, an extreme right-winger who haunted the French political establishment for decades, died on Tuesday aged 96, dividing opinion until the end.