Jean-Marie Le Pen founded National Front, and was convicted multiple times of antisemitism and discrimination as well as inciting racial violence.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right Front National party, now known as National Rally (RN), has died at 96. View on euronews

It changed its name, from National Front to National Rally. And the party — long run by Mr. Le Pen, who called Hitler’s gas chambers “a detail” of history — has made a point of decrying ...

JEAN-Marie Le Pen, the nationalist founder of the French far-right National Front party, has died aged 96. Le Pen, who had been in a care facility for several weeks, died at midday Tuesday

A few months later she changed the National Front name to National Rally as part of her strategy to renew the party’s image. Her father called it the “toughest blow” the party had faced ...

By founding the National Front in 1972 — which has since been rebranded and is led by his daughter Marine Le Pen — Jean-Marie Le Pen ushered in a new brand of extreme-right politics. His legacy remains embedded in some of today’s dominant political parties.

National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, left, pats a horse ridden by Francoise, posing as Joan of Arc, on Thursday, May 1, 1997, during a party rally. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz) The Elysée ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French right-wing nationalist party formerly known as the National Front, has died aged 96, news agency AFP reported on Tuesday, citing Le Pen's family. The head of the party,

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.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front and a controversial force in the country's political life for decades, has died aged 96. President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday issued a terse acknowledgement of Le Pen's significant role in France's post-war society - but withheld any further assessment of his legacy.