As Jean-Marie Le Pen is buried, here’s a look at key dates of the rise of the far right in France
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party and a polarizing figure in French politics, is being buried ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen: rabble-rousing co-founder of the French National Front
Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...
French far-right icon Jean-Marie Le Pen buried in Brittany
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front, was buried on ...
Funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen takes place amid heavy security
The private service for the deeply polarising far-Right politician will take place in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader who was convicted of Holocaust denial, dies at 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France, where Holocaust denial ...
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As Jean-Marie Le Pen is buried, here’s a look at key dates of the rise of the far right in France
Born in 1928 in the western region of Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen served in the military, fighting to maintain French colonial rule in Indochina and Algeria. He was a paratrooper in the 1957 ...