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

The memorial for Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was known for his racist and antisemitic remarks, comes as the National Rally has ...

Mr Le Pen's long political career was all about belligerence, anger, regret and scapegoats - but it would be wrong to write him off as merely an agitator.

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

Like Mr Le Pen’s unapologetic extremist politics, the far-right leader’s formative moments seem to belong to history. Yet his ...

Opposition defend reaction after co-founder of National Front, forerunner of daughter Marine’s National Rally, died on ...

More than 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony on Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right ...

A polarising figure in French politics, his controversial statements led to multiple convictions and strained his political ...

The co-founder of France's main postwar far-right movement Jean-Marie Le Pen divided the country even after his death, with ...

Marine Le Pen has expressed regret for expelling her late father from the far-right party he founded. Le Pen admitted she ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right National Front party and an unrepentant extremist on race, immigration and multiculturalism, has died aged 96. Le Pen had been in a care ...

Donald Trump began signing the first of possibly more than 100 executive orders after his inauguration on Monday, before ...