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

Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen in ... Le Pen founded the French far-right movement in the 1970s. The sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”.Credit: Getty Images Jean-Marie Le Pen ...

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 ...

From founding the National Front party – which his daughter has taken to new heights as National Rally (RN) – to his election as France’s youngest lawmaker, Jean-Marie Le Pen was present at ...