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Jean Louis Marie Le Pen was the only son of Jean Le Pen (1901–1942). Jean Le Pen was born in Brittany, like his ancestors, and had started work at the age of 13 on a transatlantic vessel. He was the president of L'Association des Ancients Combattants and Councilor of La Trinité-sur-Mer. [4] Jean-Marie Le Pen's mother, Anne-Marie Hervé (1904 ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far-right National Front party and a lieutenant during the war, attacked Le Monde and former Prime minister Michel Rocard on charges of defamation after the newspaper accused him of having engaged in torture. [46]
Le Pen (French: [lə pɛn]) is a prominent political family of France.Le Pen is a Breton surname meaning "the head", "the chief" or "the peninsula". [1] The family has led the National Rally party (formerly the National Front) since its inception in 1972, first under Jean-Marie Le Pen (1972–2011) and subsequently under his daughter Marine Le Pen (2011–2022).
For more than a decade, Le Pen has sought to rid RN of the xenophobic and racist image it acquired under the nearly 40-year leadership of her father, ex-paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Presidential elections were held in France on 21 April 2002, with a runoff election between the top two candidates, incumbent Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front, on 5 May. This presidential contest attracted a greater than usual amount of international attention because of candidate Le Pen's ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. French politician (born 1968) Marine Le Pen Le Pen in 2024 President of the National Rally group in the National Assembly Incumbent Assumed office 28 June 2022 Preceded by Office established Member of the National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais's 11th constituency Incumbent Assumed office ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and leader of the National Front (FN) party in France, was initially suspended from the party in May 2015 after claiming that the Holocaust was "a detail of history". After Le Pen successfully challenged the suspension in court, an extraordinary party congress was held in August 2015, and he was expelled from the ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen started taking notes for his autobiography in 1975 during a 2-month-long cruise across the Pacific Ocean, saying, "I will write my memories when I will be old." Le Pen started writing in 2015 with the help of Marie-Christine Arnautu. The original version was written on sheets of white paper with a blue marker.