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

NEWS ANALYSIS. The leaders of the Rassemblement National, who had feared a potential 're-demonization' of the party following the death of its co-founder, praised his career, encouraged by measured media coverage and political reactions.

Being implicated in acts of torture and the murder of an Arab Muslim nationalist were not mentioned when Jean-Marie Le Pen was honoured in a military church following his death on January 7, at the age of 96. Those packing Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce in ...