Marine Le Pen reportedly heard about her father's death during a stop to Nairobi while on a flight back from visiting natural disaster victims on the French Indian Ocean island Mayotte. The ...

As Marine Le Pen, Jean-Marie’s daughter and – at the time – campaign director, said on the night of the first round when asked how bad a defeat this was: “This is the victory of his ideas!” ...

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

open image in gallery French far-right National Front (FN) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen attends a May Day ceremony in 2019 (REUTERS) Born in 1928, Le Pen described himself throughout his life as ...

Founder of the far-right National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen points his finger as he poses during a photo session at his home in Saint-Cloud on January 14, 2021. Donald Trump probably doesn’t ...

FILE - Pierre Poujade, center, whose newly formed anti-tax party has surprised the world by winning at least 50 seats in the French elections, with Andre Gayard, left, and Jean-Marie Le Pen, right ...

French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has died aged 96. Le Pen, who had been in a care facility for several weeks, died at midday on Tuesday "surrounded by his loved ones", the family said.

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 him as a ...

By Robert D. McFadden Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France’s modern political far-right who built a half-century career on rants of barely disguised racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi ...