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 ...

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, 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 Pen, co-founder of France’s far-right National Front, has died at 96, Sebastien Chenu, a senior party official, said Tuesday. A polarizing figure in French politics, Le ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen founded France's far right in the 1970s and mounted a strong challenge for the presidency. But it was only when he handed the reins on to his daughter that his rebranded party ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday aged 96, was the far-right bogeyman of French politics, infamously dismissing the Holocaust as a detail of history and spending half a century whipping up anger ...

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 ...

French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen ... whose mourning must be respected." Le Pen was born in 1928 in Brittany and was known to wear a patch after losing an eye during a street fight in his ...

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 ...

The eye patch he wore for many years added to his pugilistic air. Years later Le Pen revealed that he lost his eye driving a tent peg into a hole, and not, as was widely thought, in a brawl.

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 ...