southern France, Sunday, March 4, 2012. Credit: AP/Claude Paris Conservative rival Jacques Chirac went on to win in a ...

Jean Marie Le Pen, an iconic and controversial figure in French politics, has died at the age of 96. Founder of the National ...

Those comments provoked outrage, including in France, where police had rounded up thousands ... He reached a presidential ...

Two decades ago Mr Le Pen’s brand of xenophobic politics was rejected by a majority of French, and European, public opinion.

The co-founder of the main French postwar far-right movement Jean-Marie Le Pen is to be buried Saturday at a strictly ...

A polarizing figure in French politics, Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting ...

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

A polarizing figure in French politics, Mr. Le Pen's controversial statements — including his Holocaust denial and his 1987 ...

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front and a controversial ...

In a rare joining of forces, supporters of the right and left poured into the streets of France in a massive show of ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right movement, has died at the age of 96. Le Pen died on Tuesday (7 January) ...