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.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party, died on Jan.7, 2025 aged 96. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) People wait outside Notre Dame du Val-de-Grace church before a public memorial for late far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen ...

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen brought fascist views into the French mainstream, writes Nabila Ramdani. She reflects on his far-right legacy following his death.

Le mort de Jean-Marie Le Pen ne peut ni effacer ses outrances et provocations, ni maquiller ses extrémismes, recyclés aujourd’hui.

(AP Photo/Thomas Padilla) MARSEILLE, France (CN) — France’s far-right leader Marine ... to rebrand the RN away from the former National Front of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. The party has long been associated with extremist, xenophobic rhetoric ...

But not all of the leading conservative populist parties in the world are the same — in rhetoric or on policy.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the French far-right Front National ... that he was the shield (trying to protect France), to Charles de Gaulle’s sword (actively resisting Nazi occupation). In 2023 then Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne criticised ...

French ambassador to Djibouti Jean Marie Momal (ION N° 635) signed an official advisory note on February first for public information announcing his decision to "forbid French nationals to move further than Dikhil by day or outside of Djibouti Town by night".