Jean-Marie Le Pen courted controversy throughout his career ... anti-European Union views had seeped into French right-wing discourse. “For Le Pen and his party, the crux of the matter is ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen,, the leader of the French Front National (FN) from 1972 to 2011, who has died aged 96, appeared for many years as a rumbustious, rackety and outrageous figure on the margins of ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last month, attempted to forge an alliance between neo-fascists, apologists for French ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen founded France's far right in the 1970s ... to the French parliament in 1956 in a party led by militant right-wing shopkeepers' leader Pierre Poujade. But they fell out and ...

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 ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, right, and his daughter Marine Le Pen sit at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, eastern France, on July 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File) ...

Fascist from another era’ – Francois Ruffin, a left-wing member of ... a hardline right-winger, said that “whatever one’s opinion of Jean-Marie Le Pen may be, there can be no doubt that ...

PARIS (AP) — 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 ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National ... Le Pen founded National Rally, then called National Front, in 1972 as a right-wing populist movement and led the party until 2011.

FILE – French far-right Front National former leader Jean-Marie Le Pen delivers a speech during the 15th congress of the party, in Lyon, central France, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014. (AP Photo ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right National Front party and an unrepentant extremist on race, immigration and multiculturalism, has died aged 96. Le Pen had been in a care ...