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

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

JEAN-Marie Le Pen, the nationalist founder of the French far-right National Front party, has died aged 96. Le Pen, who had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France’s postwar far-right movement, has died at the ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French right-wing nationalist party formerly known as the National Front, has died aged 96, ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front and a controversial ...