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

The French Left-wing opposition has defended public displays of joy that followed the death of the far-Right veteran ...

Demonstrators were seen setting off fireworks and chanting slogans in Republic Square on Tuesday. Earlier that day, Le Pen, ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has paid tribute to her father Jean-Marie, the founder of the National Front party who ...

Marine Le Pen, parliamentary leader of France's far-right National Rally, on Wednesday commemorated the death of her father ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party, the National Front, has died at the age of 96, according to ...

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration ...

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

He co-founded what became France’s biggest opposition party, National Rally, rooted in deep anti-immigrant sentiment.

Controversy was Le Pen's constant companion: accusations of racism and antisemitism dogged the National Front from when he co ...