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

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's main far-right party, died on Tuesday at 96, but the anti-immigration and ...

A polarizing figure in French politics, Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting ...

As prime minister for the five years dating back to 1997, the popular Jospin had pushed through socially progressive measures like France's ... the conservative Jacques Chirac, held the Élysée ...

France, Le Pen declared ... This allowed the FN, with 9.8 per cent of the vote, to return 35 members. Jacques Chirac, who became prime minister in 1986, ended proportional representation, and ...

Le Pen was born in 1928 in Brittany, France, and entered politics following ... In 2002, his penultimate campaign, he came in second to Jacques Chirac, advancing to a runoff but received less ...

He stood for president five times, most successfully in 2002 when he shocked France by defeating Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the first round of voting, Jacques Chirac in the second round ...

Even the then-Prime Minister of France Jacques Chirac attended the grand opening and inaugurated its 29 attractions. Despite its promise, Mirapolis faced trouble from the start. Persistent rain ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s National Front who ran for president five times and lived to see his anti-immigrant rhetoric go mainstream, has died. He was 96.

He favored shrinking France’s bloated government bureaucracy ... of voting that allowed Mr. Le Pen to challenge President Jacques Chirac and his center-right party. Chirac went on to trounce ...

southern France, Sunday, March 4, 2012. Credit: AP/Claude Paris Conservative rival Jacques Chirac went on to win in a landslide victory with a record 82% of the vote. A year later, Le Pen said he ...