Vandals have damaged the grave of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front, his family said on Friday.

A polarising figure in French politics, his controversial statements led to multiple convictions and strained his political ...

Le Pen, who had been in a care facility for several weeks, died at midday Tuesday 'surrounded by his loved ones', his family said in a statement. Marine, his youngest daughter, was not present ...

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

Marine Le Pen was overcome with emotion while attending the memorial service in honour of her father, far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, in Paris today - days after she said she would 'never ...

Ultimately, Mr Le Pen’s unfiltered approach was too much even for his own daughter, Marine Le Pen, who took over the party in 2011. Four years later she expelled her father, and then changed its ...

Le Pen was succeeded as party chief by his daughter, Marine Le Pen. She has since run for the presidency three times and turned the party, now branded the National Rally, into one of the country's ...

Le Pen, who reached the second round of the 2002 presidential election, was eventually estranged from his daughter, Marine Le Pen, who renamed his National Front party, kicked him out and ...

His death was confirmed by his daughter Marine Le Pen's political party, National Rally. Jean-Marie Le Pen spent his life fighting, whether as a soldier in France's colonial wars, as a founder of ...

Le Pen, who once reached the second round of the 2002 presidential election, was eventually estranged from his daughter, Marine Le Pen, who renamed his National Front party, kicked him out and ...

Mr. Le Pen’s youngest daughter, Marine Le Pen, succeeded him as leader of his party, the National Front, in 2011 and rose to prominence on a tide of populist anger at the political mainstream.