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

PARIS(Reuters) -Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration and globalisation and revelled in minimising the Holocaust, ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France’s postwar far-right movement, has died at the age of 96, according to French network BFMTV. From founding the ...

News that Jean-Marie Le Pen — one of the founders of France’s extreme rightwing political party, the National Front — died on Tuesday came as a surprise to no one; he was 96 and in brittle ...

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 supporters and ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right political party the National Front, has died aged 96, a senior party official has announced. Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party Front National, has died. He was 96. His family confirmed the news in a statement sent to the AFP and said he died “surrounded by his ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has died aged 96, was a major figure in French public life, and a founder of the far-right National Front. A sometimes violent rabblerouser who claimed, like other ...

He ran unsuccessfully for the French presidency five times, riding waves of discontent and xenophobia as the leader of the National Front party. By Robert D. McFadden Jean-Marie Le Pen ...

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 ...

He stayed at the head of the National Front, the party he co-founded in 1972, until 2011, when he handed the reins to his daughter, Marine Le Pen. But his racist and anti-Semitic stances made him ...