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 ...

The founder and longtime leader of the French far-right Front National party, since rebranded as the National Rally (RN), Jean-Marie Le Pen, died on Tuesday, the family said. He was 96.

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