Far-right firebrand and co-founder of France's anti-immigration National Front movement Jean-Marie Le Pen was buried Saturday at a strictly family-only funeral after his death earlier this week ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party and a polarizing figure in French politics, is being buried in a private family ceremony in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in ...

Le Pen ran unsuccessfully for president five times. In 2002, his penultimate campaign, he came in second to Jacques Chirac, advancing to a runoff but received less than one-fifth of the vote as ...

Le Pen ran unsuccessfully for president five times. In 2002, his penultimate campaign, he came in second to Jacques Chirac, advancing to a runoff but received less than one-fifth of the vote as ...

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 daughter Marine Le Pen.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread ...

Le Pen shook the French political establishment when he unexpectedly reached the presidential election run-off vote against Jacques Chirac in 2002, with his pugnacious mix of populism and charisma.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, far-right French politician, infamous for Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, left a controversial legacy.

And in 2002, Le Pen provoked a political earthquake by making it into the runoff round against incumbent Gaullist Jacques Chirac, winning more than 4.8 million votes.

For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after his death Tuesday, it hailed him as a visionary.

AS a Holocaust denier and founder of France’s far-right National Front, he was one of politics’ most controversial figures. Yesterday, Jean-Marie Le Pen, seen by some as the forerunner of the ...