Marine Le Pen reportedly heard about her father's death during a stop to Nairobi while on a flight back from visiting natural disaster victims on the French Indian Ocean island Mayotte. The ...

As Marine Le Pen, Jean-Marie’s daughter and – at the time – campaign director, said on the night of the first round when asked how bad a defeat this was: “This is the victory of his ideas!” ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives Notre Dame du ...

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen paid tribute Wednesday to her father Jean-Marie, the founder of the National ... way back from the French territory of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean, ...

Founder of the far-right National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen points his finger as he poses during a photo session at his home in Saint-Cloud on January 14, 2021. Donald Trump probably doesn’t ...

UPDATES with arrests in Paris, government spokeswoman comments, Le Monde The co-founder of France's main postwar far-right movement Jean-Marie Le ... ravaged French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte ...

open image in gallery French far-right National Front (FN) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen attends a May Day ceremony in 2019 (REUTERS) Born in 1928, Le Pen described himself throughout his life as ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front party who campaigned against ...

FILE - Pierre Poujade, center, whose newly formed anti-tax party has surprised the world by winning at least 50 seats in the French elections, with Andre Gayard, left, and Jean-Marie Le Pen, right ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, an extreme right-winger who haunted the French political establishment for decades, died on Tuesday aged 96, dividing opinion until the end. While the left decried him as a ...