Jean-Marie Le Pen, the rabble-rousing far-right leader who died on Tuesday aged 96, was a political outcast on April 21, 2002 ...

Here is a short history of the French far-right National Front, whose historic leader and co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen died ...

Pierre Poujade, center, whose newly formed anti-tax party has surprised the world by winning at least 50 seats in the French ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the French Front National (FN) from 1972 to 2011, who has died aged 96, appeared for many ...

By founding the National Front in 1972 — which has since been rebranded and is led by his daughter Marine Le Pen — Jean-Marie ...

In 2002, he unexpectedly made it to the second round of the presidential election, winning 18% of the vote in the first round ...

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

A Holocaust denier and unrepentant extremist on race and immigration, the far-right politician has died at 96.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the National Front, helped make extremist views and anti-immigrant rhetoric mainstream in ...