Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week at the age of 96 PARIS -- Over ... Family ...

PARIS — Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week at the age of 96.

Family members, including his daughter Marine Le Pen, now the leading far-right figure in France, other Rassemblement National party officials and longstanding supporters gathered inside the church.

A polarising figure in French politics, his controversial statements led to multiple convictions and strained his political ...

Le Pen posted on social media platform X: “A venerable age had taken the warrior away but given us back our father," suggesting she was able to reconcile with him. Jean-Marie, who has three daughters ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France’s postwar far-right movement, has died at the age of 96, according to French network BFMTV. From founding the ...

Born into a Breton fishing family, he embraced the extreme from an early age. As a law student ... century was marked by the rise of Le Pen’s daughter Marine, who succeeded her father as head ...

Marine Le Pen, became leader of National Front in 2011 ... Foreign Legionnaire who fought in Indochina and Algeria. At the age of 27, he became the youngest politician elected to the French ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, a domineering and polarizing figure in French politics and founder of the National Rally party, died at age 96 ... and of course of Marine, whose mourning must be respected ...

But it often felt as if Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died on January 7th at the age of 96, belonged to an ... was too much even for his own daughter, Marine Le Pen, who took over the party in 2011.