Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of the far-right National Front party of France and self-proclaimed torchbearer of traditional French values who was a frequent presidential contender and was twice ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen was born to a modest family in La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany on June 20, 1928. His mother was a dressmaker, his father a fisherman who was killed when his trawler netted a mine in ...

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

So while Jean-Marie Le Pen was seeking to render his ... This situation continued to worsen as Marine Le Pen replaced her father as party leader in 2011. She eventually changed the name of the ...

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 ...

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen should give us a moment to ponder ... is bossing President Macron in a way unthinkable even in her father’s heyday. From the Netherlands to Sweden to Hungary ...

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 ...

Her father called it the “toughest blow” the party had faced since its founding. Throughout his life, Jean-Marie Le Pen refused to cede, or be silenced. “I’m a moral authority for the movement ...

Her father called it the “toughest blow” the party had faced since its founding. Throughout his life, Jean-Marie Le Pen refused to cede, or be silenced. “I’m a moral authority for the move ...

PARIS — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right ... powerful political forces while distancing herself from her father’s extremist image. Jordan Bardella, president of the ...