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 ...

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 ...

The elder Le Pen is dead, but far-right populists across the world still echo his mix of violent rhetoric, brazen lies, and outreach to mainstream conservatives.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...