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

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has died aged 96, was a major figure in French public life, and a founder of the far-right National Front. A sometimes violent rabblerouser who claimed, like other ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she aims to lead France as the president of a "non-aligned" power but insisted she was not seeking the post of prime minister in the case of new legislative elections.

FILE - Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File) FILE - Former ...