On March 31, a Paris court sentenced Le Pen to four years in prison and ruled to bar her from holding elected office and participating in elections for five years ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, a controversial figure in French politics, died on Jan. 7, 2025. His political career spanned decades and left a lasting mark on both France and Europe.

The tomb of the late French Far-Right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was attacked on Friday morning - just two weeks after he was buried in his home village of La Trinité-sur-Mer, Brittany.

More than 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony on Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died earlier in January aged 96.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party and a polarizing figure in French politics, is being buried Saturday in a private family ceremony in his hometown of La Trinité ...

France's far-right Front National (FN) party founder and former leader Jean-Marie Le Pen gestures as he speaks during an interview at his house in Saint-Cloud outside Paris on January 9, 2019 ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen would have none of his daughter’s reforms. In 2016, he founded and became president of the Jeanne Committees, named after Joan of Arc, a new far-right political party.

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!” ...

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the National Front, occurs at a time when the mainstreaming of far-right politics in France seems almost complete.

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.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread ...