Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front, was buried on Saturday. Le Pen died on Tuesday at the age of 96. Around 100 police officers were on duty for the funeral in La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany.

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

Born in 1928 in the western region of Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen served in the military, fighting to maintain French colonial rule in Indochina and Algeria. He was a paratrooper in the 1957 ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France ... family ceremony in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany. Le Pen, whose death Tuesday at the age of 96 reignited debates ...

Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony 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

NEWS ANALYSIS. The leaders of the Rassemblement National, who had feared a potential 're-demonization' of the party following the death of its co-founder, praised his career, encouraged by measured media coverage and political reactions.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the co-founder of the French National Front — now called the National Rally — died today at age 96 “surrounded by his loved ones,” the family reported. He was a great ...

Being implicated in acts of torture and the murder of an Arab Muslim nationalist were not mentioned when Jean-Marie Le Pen was honoured in a military church following his death on January 7, at the age of 96. Those packing Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce in ...