Ms. Le Pen, 56, became the face of France’s far right after taking over the party in 2011 from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen ... rejecting her father’s antisemitism — he was convicted ...

Born a little more than 50 years ago, the party was founded by Jean-Marie ... to Le Pen’s undertaking seemed deeper, most importantly purging the party’s association with antisemitism.

The 56-year-old daughter of the late far-right totemic figure Jean-Marie Le ... of racism and antisemitism that clung to the far right for decades. A wily politician, Le Pen also transformed ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader often accused of racism and antisemitism, dies at 96 A polarizing figure in French politics, Le Pen was convicted numerous times of antisemitism ...

The Le Pen name has always been a double-edged sword: synonymous with anti-conformism and French national pride, but weighed down by Jean-Marie’s racism, antisemitism, and historical revisionism.

A member of the French Parliament, Le Pen and others were accused of misusing 4.4 million euros, or $4.8 million, in European Parliament funds to pay staff who were working for he ...

Since the party’s creation in 1972, the National Rally has always been led by either Le Pen or her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died earlier this year. Recent polling had indicated that Le Pen ...

But 2025 has delivered a double blow for the Le Pen dynasty – first with Jean Marie Le Pen’s passing in January and now Marine’s forced departure from the political stage.

In 1972, her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founded the National Front party rooted in racism, antisemitism and a yearning for France's lost empire. She was just 8 years old when a bomb destroyed the ...

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