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Jean-Marie Le Pen, post-war leader of the French far-right, dies at 96

The death of France’s former far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was announced on Tuesday. The founder of the Front National, now renamed the Rassemblement National, died in a hospital close to Paris at the age of 96. French historian Nicolas Lebourg, specialised in research into the far-right in France and Europe, retraces here the marking moments in the life of Le Pen, an outspoken racist and anti-Semite, whose opponents and supporters, he writes, would at least agree that he succeeded in demonstrating it was possible to change France without governing the country.

Nicolas Lebourg

7 January 2025 à 19h47

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s far-right Front National party (renamed as the Rassemblement National in 2018), died on Tuesday at the age of 96 following his recent hospitalization in the Paris suburb of Garches.

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