Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s National Front who ran for president five times and lived to see his anti-immigrant rhetoric go mainstream, has died. He was 96.

PARIS (AP) — Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week at the age of 96 ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, a domineering and polarizing figure in French politics and founder of the National Rally party, died at age 96. National Rally President Jordan Bardella announced his death on ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen was born in the Breton coastal village of Trinité-sur-Mer on June 20, 1928. His father, a fisherman, was killed in 1942 during World War II when his boat struck a mine.

For decades, Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter Marine were the undisputed leaders of the nationalist hard-right in France. Now, Marine Le Pen sees her monopoly threatened by the rebellious writer ...

Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen has benefited not only from the mainstream’s pandering to her own politics but the hype around her rival on the far right, Eric Zemmour, during the 2022 presidential ...

Retrospectives on Jean-Marie Le Pen highlight his most infamous racist and antisemitic statements but almost uniformly overlook a key dimension of his politics: anti-communism. Yet this has long ...

Le respect de la dignité des morts et du chagrin de leurs proches n'efface pas le droit de juger leurs actes. Ceux de Jean-Marie Le Pen restent insupportables. Le combat contre l'homme est fini ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the co-founder and former president of French far-right party Front National (National Front), is in hospital following a minor stroke, one of his advisers said on Thursday.