For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after his death Tuesday, it hailed him as a visionary.

A Holocaust denier and unrepentant extremist on race and immigration, the far-right politician has died at 96.

The frequent presidential contender was twice convicted of dismissing the Nazi gas chambers as a “minor point” in World War II.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party and a polarizing figure in French politics, is being buried ...

Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie ...

His death was as controversial as his life. Last 14 November, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 96-year-old Front National founder, who’d been taken to a West Paris hospital after collapsing (since 2022 he’d had ...

Marine Le Pen has expressed regret for expelling her late father from the far-right party he founded. She expelled him from the party four years after she succeeded him in 2011 after he repeated a ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front, was buried on ...

The death of French fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was accompanied by cloying tributes from fascists, conservatives and ...

The memorial for Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was known for his racist and antisemitic remarks, comes as the National Rally has become the driving force in French politics. By Richard Fausset and ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she will never forgive herself for expelling her father Jean-Marie Le Pen from her party, after he died last week aged 96. Nicknamed "the devil of the ...

The private funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen has taken place amid heightened security, after the polarising post-war French party leader died aged 96 on Tuesday. Dozens of police were deployed to ...