The leader of France's far-right Rassemblement National, a party founded by her late father in 1972 and previously named the Front National, expelled him in 2015 over his anti-Semitic remarks.

Marine Le Pen has expressed regret for expelling her late father from the far-right party he founded.Le Pen admitted she would “never forgive herself” for removing her fatherJean-Marie Le Pen from National Front (FN),

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 Brittany.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she will never forgive herself for expelling her father Jean-Marie Le Pen from her party, after he died last week aged 96. She slung her father out of the party for his anti-Semitic views in 2015.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front, was buried on Saturday. Le Pen died on Tuesday at the age of 96. Around 100 police officers were on duty for the funeral in La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany.

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France, where Holocaust denial is illegal.

Marine Le Pen has expressed regret for expelling her ... private funeral in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in southern Brittany. His supporters saw him as a charismatic figure who would ...

Le Pen's daughter, Marine Le Pen, transformed the National ... Born in 1928 in the western region of Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen served in the military, fighting to maintain French colonial ...

The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church took place under tight security, as Le Pen was a polarizing figure, convicted multiple times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence.

Marine Le Pen was overcome with emotion while attending ... funeral in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in southern Brittany following his death last week. The more public mass today saw ...

Read more Subscribers only Jean-Marie Le Pen, who put the far right back at the heart of French politics, has died Marine Le Pen's ... of La Trinité-sur-Mer, in Brittany, on Saturday, January ...