Here's a look at the key dates in the life and career of one of France’s most controversial political figures, and his legacy: Born in 1928 in the western region of Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen ...
Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...
Born on June 20, 1928, in the seaside village of La Trinite-sur-Mer in Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s father, Jean, died in 1942 when a wartime mine blew up his fishing boat. A monarchist in his ...
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 ...
FILE - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, center, flanked by his daughter Marine Le Pen, and Bruno Gollnisch, arrives for a wreath-laying ceremony at the statue of Joan of Arc, within the ...