Experts argue the French rightwing leader's newfound distance from the U.S. president represents the growing legitimacy of ...

French police have opened an investigation into death threats against a judge and two prosecutors involved in a corruption ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said France should follow US president Donald Trump's hardline stance toward countries unwilling to receive deportees, citing his pressure on Colombia as a model ...

The memorial for Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was known for his racist and antisemitic remarks, comes as the National Rally has ...

The former paratrooper founded the party in 1972 but it was only when he handed the reins to his daughter Marine Le Pen in 2011 that his rebranded party really caught sight of power. Ms Le Pen ...

Political analysts said voters in successively increasing numbers had embraced Ms. Le Pen’s right-wing messages, which sought to exploit economic insecurity among the middle classes and ...

Mr Le Pen's long political career was all about belligerence, anger, regret and scapegoats - but it would be wrong to write him off as merely an agitator.

Their personal relationship continued to be fraught but Ms Le Pen paid a personal tribute to her father shortly after his death, calling him a “warrior” on X, formerly Twitter. “Many people ...

Ambition triumphed over affection; rivalry overrode filial duty. All his life, Mr Le Pen thrived on conflict; Ms Le Pen sought to appear respectable. He swaggered about on the untouchable fringes ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of France's main postwar far-right movement, was buried Saturday in a private ceremony in his native Brittany amid tight security. His funeral followed a mass in his ...

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