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

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... candidate Lionel 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 ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... 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 ...

L'ensemble de l'extrême droite s'est rassemblée jeudi pour une dernière cérémonie en hommage à Jean-Marie Le Pen, le ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... outstripping socialist Lionel Jospin in a surprise upset in the first round of voting that allowed Mr. Le Pen to challenge President Jacques Chirac and his center-right ...

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 ...

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 ... having seen off the Socialist favourite Lionel Jospin before losing to conservative Jacques Chirac. Marine Le Pen took the party's leadership in 2011 and pushed her father ...