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

A private funeral took place last week in Le Pen's hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany. Jean-Marie had three daughters, including Marine, the youngest. She transformed her father's ...

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.

She had been trying to "detoxify" the party to make it more electable. Jean-Marie Le Pen was born in Brittany in 1928. His father, a fisherman, was killed in 1942 when his boat hit a British-laid ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen was deemed unfit to testify and eventually exempted from prosecution on health grounds. He was born June 20, 1928, in the Brittany village of Trinite-Sur-Mer. His father later ...