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

6) Goodbye to the 'useless' European Parliament After 35 years sitting on the hemicycle, Jean-Marie Le Pen shed no tears as he bid goodbye to the European Parliament. Instead, he used his final ...

Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. But the nativist ideas that propelled his popularity remain ascendant in today's France and beyond.

Jean-Marie Le Pen ... birthday as a member of the European parliament – a post he retained until 2019. Jordan Bardella, president of the RN party, said Le Pen “always served France, defending ...

"Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Enlisted in the uniform of the French army in Indochina and Algeria, tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament, he always served France ...

PARIS — Jean-Marie ... France.” Le Pen had recently been exempted from prosecution on health grounds from a high-profile trial over his party’s suspected embezzlement of European Parliament ...

(AP Photo/H. Babout, File) FILE - French former far right National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen looks for his seat at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, eastern France, July 1, 2014.

Jean-Marie Le ... of the party Le Pen founded. “Enlisted in the uniform of the French army in Indochina and Algeria, tribune of the people in the National Assembly and the European Parliament ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France ... for helping seed “this anti-national spirit.” Le Pen lost his European Parliament seat in 2002 for a year for assaulting a Socialist ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter Marine Le Pen sit at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in 2009. Le Pen began laying the groundwork for his succession at a party congress in 2003 ...