Jean-Marie Le Pen, the rabble-rousing former far-right ... During the 1970s, the far-right leader was known as "the man with the eye patch" owing to a pirate’s blindfold he wore over his left ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, with eye patch, is shown in April 1974 at his Paris residence with first wife Pierrette, left, and their three children, from left to right: Yann, Marine and Marie-Caroline.

Jean-Marie Le ... a shock in my eye, I have to be hospitalised. Retinal detachment," he would write in a memoir years later, external. For many years Le Pen wore a patch after losing sight in ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen ... of “eternal France.” Le Pen, who lost his left eye in 1965 while hammering a tent stake, for years wore a black eye patch that became a symbol of his ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of the far-right National Front ... No stranger to violence, he reputedly lost an eye in one of several anti-communist street brawls during his youthful student days ...

PARIS — Jean-Marie Le ... kill me,” Le Pen said at a 1990 party congress, reflecting the theatrical style that for decades fed the fervor of followers. Le Pen, who lost an eye in a street ...

PARIS — Jean-Marie ... alliances. Le Pen routinely countered that he was simply a patriot protecting the identity of “eternal France.” Le Pen, who lost his left eye in 1965 while hammering a tent ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the co-founder of France ... for political office if convicted in an embezzlement trial. Le Pen, who lost an eye in a street fight in his youth, was a constant force in ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... kill me,” Le Pen said at a 1990 party congress, reflecting the theatrical style that for decades fed the fervor of followers. Le Pen, who lost an eye in a street fight ...