Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right nationalist party formerly known as the National Front, was buried on Saturday. Le Pen died on Tuesday at the age of 96. Around 100 police officers were on duty for the funeral in La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany.

Brittany, Saturday, January 11, 2025. MATHIEU PATTIER / AP French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said she will never forgive herself for expelling her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, from her party ...

His death was as controversial as his life. Last 14 November, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 96-year-old Front National founder, who’d been taken to a West Paris hospital after collapsing (since 2022 he’d had several small strokes),

Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week at the age of 96

Marine Le Pen is widely considered as one of France's top contenders ... Jean-Marie Le Pen's funeral will take place on Saturday in his birth town of La Trinite-sur-Mer, in the western Brittany region.

Le Pen’s daughter, Marine Le Pen, transformed the National ... Born in 1928 in the western region of Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen served in the military, fighting to maintain French colonial ...

More than 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony yesterday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died earlier this month aged 96. The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grace church took place under tight security,

When, in 2011, Marine Le Pen took over as head of the National ... was buried on Saturday in a quiet family ceremony in his home region of Brittany in western France. Gatherings in Paris and ...

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.

was buried Saturday in a private ceremony in his native Brittany amid tight security. His funeral followed a mass in his hometown of La Trinite-sur-Mer in the western region. The funeral was attended by his daughter Marine Le Pen, who took over her father ...

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