Jean-Marie Le Pen, the rabble-rousing far-right leader who died on Tuesday aged 96, was a political outcast on April 21, 2002, when he stormed into the second round of France’s presidential

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

The founder of France's National Rally party, and father of Marine Le Pen, pioneered Trump-style populist, anti-immigrant politics.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of France's main postwar far-right movement, was buried Saturday in a private ceremony in his native Brittany amid tight security.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right party Front National, has died. He was 96. His family confirmed the news in a statement sent to the AFP and said he died “surrounded by his loved ones.”

Far-right firebrand and co-founder of France's anti-immigration National Front movement Jean-Marie Le Pen is to be buried Saturday at a strictly family-only funeral after his death earlier this week aged 96.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of France’s main postwar far-right movement, was buried Saturday in a private ceremony in his

One of France’s best known and most controversial ... the 2002 presidential election when he beat socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round to face Jacques Chirac in the second ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, an extreme right-winger who haunted the French political establishment for decades, died on Tuesday aged 96, dividing opinion until

The sharp shift to the right within New Caledonia’s political establishment comes after seven months of unrest by the French colony’s alienated Kanak youth.

He loved France' - Some locals praised Le Pen's devotion to France ... Then, in 2002, Le Pen burst onto the frontline of French politics by edging Socialist Lionel Jospin in presidential elections to make the run-off against right-winger Jacques Chirac.

The funeral in his hometown of La Trinite-sur-Mer in the Morbihan region of Brittany in western France will take place “in the ... and in 2002 he famously eliminated Socialist Lionel Jospin in presidential elections to make the run-off against right ...