Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week at the age of 96.The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church took place under tight security,

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party and a polarizing figure in French politics, is being buried in a private family ceremony in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany.

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, who founded France's far-right National Front party, died at 96 years old. Le Pen was a controversial and confrontational figure.

Jean-Marie, who has three daughters ... French anti-racist group SOS Racisme said Le Pen spent his life promoting the far right through “racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and Holocaust denial.”

More than 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony on Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died earlier in January aged 96. The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grace church took place under tight security,

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right ... Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. His statements ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen espoused racist and antisemitic rhetoric that landed him in legal trouble in France, where Holocaust denial is illegal.

By Robert D. McFadden Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France’s modern political far-right who built a half-century career on rants of barely disguised racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi propaganda, died on Tuesday in Garches, west of Paris.

She sought to moderate the image of the party, renamed National Rally, and denounced her father’s antisemitism. Jean-Marie Le Pen was ejected from the party he founded in 2015 following the oven ...

Le Pen - an unrepentant extremist on race, gender and immigration - founded the far-right National Front in 1972.

Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. But the nativist ideas that propelled his... PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of ...