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Marion Marechal delivers a speech as she inaugurates the Institute of Social Sciences, Economics and Politics (ISSEP) in Lyon, central France, June 22, 2018. (Laurent Cipriani/AP)
July 7, 2019, 2:27 pm
Le Pen family rivals? Rising French far-right star resurfaces, plays with fire
Marion Marechal, granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been holding discreet meetings in bid to build bridges with enemy conservatives; denies undermining Aunt Marine
By Elaine Ganley
This file photo taken on September 28, 2016 shows French far-right National Front party founder and former leader Jean-Marie Le Pen delivering a speech during a press conference in Mormant, near Paris. (AFP Photo/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)
September 26, 2018, 12:59 am
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right National Front, hospitalized
90-year-old father of current party leader Marine, who has a history of making anti-Semitic remarks, treated for fever
By AFP
France's far-right political party Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen speaks during a lunch meeting on September 5, 2015 in Marseille. (AFP/BORIS HORVAT)
June 14, 2018, 3:18 pm
France’s National Front founder Le Pen hospitalized during hate speech trial
89-year-old was due to face verdict in case over comments that conflated homosexuality and pedophilia and suggested that gay couples should not be in the public eye
By AFP
President of the French far-right Front National (FN) party and member of Parliament Marine Le Pen looks on during a session of questions to the government at the French National Assembly, in Paris, on May 29, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / Philippe LOPEZ)
June 1, 2018, 5:32 pm
France’s Marine Le Pen plans party rebrand in hopes of populist rebound
National Front trying to shake off reputation for racism and anti-Semitism that has marked it for decades
By AFP
In this photo taken on January 27, 2016 in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris France's far-right Front National (FN) party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen poses for a photograph. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)
April 6, 2018, 6:47 am
France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen joins European extreme-right group
Alliance for Peace and Freedom hails firebrand co-founder of National Front party as ‘the epitome of ideological coherence and resistance’
By AFP
In this photo taken on January 27, 2016 in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris France's far-right Front National (FN) party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen poses for a photograph. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)
March 31, 2018, 3:31 am
Court upholds Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Holocaust denial conviction
Founder of far-right French party was found guilty of inciting racist hatred by calling Jewish genocide a ‘detail’ of WWII
By JTA
French far-right party Front National president Marine Le Pen speaks during her party's congress on March 11, 2018 in Lille, north of France, after being re-elected for a third term as leader. (AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUEN)
March 12, 2018, 12:56 am
France’s Le Pen proposes far-right rebrand
National Front leader seeking party name change in latest bid to break away from racist, anti-Semitic legacy of movement’s founder, her father Jean-Marie Le Pen
By Anne Renaut and Adam PLOWRIGHT
French far-right party Front National president Marine Le Pen speaks during her party's congress on March 11, 2018 in Lille, north of France, after being re-elected for a third term as leader. (AFP/PHILIPPE HUGUEN)
March 11, 2018, 2:08 pm
Seeking makeover, French far-right party jettisons anti-Semitic founder
National Front party reelects Marine Le Pen as leader, considers name change amid bid to break into mainstream
By AP
In this September 25, 2017 photo, former presidential strategist Steve Bannon speaks at a rally for US Senate hopeful Roy Moore, in Fairhope, Alabama (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
March 10, 2018, 2:30 pm
Bannon to attend French far-right summit, meet Le Pen
As leader of the National Front moves to rebrand, former Trump adviser — who has long shared a similar platform — to join her Sunday at party conference
By Elaine Ganley
National Front party leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech in Bruguieres, France on September 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Eric Cabanis)
March 10, 2018, 6:35 am
French far-right seeks second wind at watershed conference
After election defeat, Marine Le Pen seeking to rebrand National Front and shed party’s xenophobic image
By Clare BYRNE
In this photo taken on January 27, 2016 in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris France's far-right Front National (FN) party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen poses for a photograph. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)
February 28, 2018, 8:29 am
Jean-Marie Le Pen’s pull-no-punches memoirs a runaway hit
Autobiography of provocative French far-right leader and Holocaust denier sells 50,000 copies before it lands in stores
By AFP
This file photo taken on May 31, 2017, shows the co-founder of France's far-right National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen at a press conference in Marignane, France. (AFP Photo/Franck Pennant)
February 21, 2018, 7:56 am
France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen defends Vichy leader’s deal with Nazis in memoirs
Far-right leader says Philippe Petain, who persecuted Jews during World War II, didn’t dishonor himself by allowing Germany to occupy part of France
By Lucie PEYTERMANN
This file photo taken on September 28, 2016 shows French far-right National Front party founder and former leader Jean-Marie Le Pen delivering a speech during a press conference in Mormant, near Paris. (AFP Photo/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)
February 9, 2018, 7:41 pm
In France, Le Pen’s father clings onto role in far-right party — for now
Court okays Marine Le Pen ousting estranged father from the National Front over Holocaust remarks, but says he can remain honorary president
By AFP
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right National Front party, gives a speech in Paris on February 17, 1996. (AFP Photo/Pierre Boussel)
January 23, 2018, 11:09 pm
Le Pen edges closer to stripping father of far-right party role
National Front votes to nix post of honorary president held by Jean-Marie Le Pen, the party’s anti-Semitic founder
By Anne Renaut
French senator from the National Front party, Claudine Kauffmann. (Courtesy: Facebook)
October 13, 2017, 7:52 pm
Suspended French National Front politician blames ‘cabal’ headed by Jew
Far-right senator Claudine Kauffmann was disciplined for provocative statements against Muslims
By JTA
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