Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time'

NEWS ANALYSIS. The leaders of the Rassemblement National, who had feared a potential 're-demonization' of the party following the death of its co-founder, praised his career, encouraged by measured media coverage and political reactions.

She had been trying to "detoxify" the party to make it more electable. Jean-Marie Le Pen was born in Brittany in 1928. His father, a fisherman, was killed in 1942 when his boat hit a British-laid ...

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. His father later ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she aims to lead France as the president of a "non-aligned" power but insisted she was not seeking the post of prime minister in the case of new legislative elections.

Experts argue the French rightwing leader's newfound distance from the U.S. president represents the growing legitimacy of her National Rally party.