Through five unsuccessful runs for president, Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal ...

For years, the far-right National Rally tried to distance itself from Mr. Le Pen’s racist and antisemitic remarks. But after ...

He argues that while Vichy France made little or no attempt to stop ... as well as the views of most of the French. Since 1995, when President Jacques Chirac acknowledged the French state's ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the rabble-rousing former far-right leader who died on Tuesday aged 96, was a convicted Holocaust denier ...

The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the National Front, occurs at a time when the ...

Speaking during a tour of northern France in Charleville-Mezieres, the president said ... a puppet government centred on the spa town of Vichy. Mr Macron's office later defended his comments.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National Rally (RN) party, has has died aged 96, his family has said. Le Pen ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right nationalist who made the Front National a leading force in French politics has died at the age of 96 ...

He ran unsuccessfully for the French presidency five times, riding waves of discontent and xenophobia as the leader of the ...

Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. But the nativist ideas that ...

The founder of France's National Rally party, and father of Marine Le Pen, pioneered Trump-style populist, anti-immigrant ...