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.

Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time'

Born in 1928 in the western region of Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen served in the military, fighting to maintain French colonial rule in Indochina and Algeria. He was a paratrooper in the 1957 ...

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France ... family ceremony in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany. Le Pen, whose death Tuesday at the age of 96 reignited debates ...

Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday 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.The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church took place under tight security,

NEWS ANALYSIS. The leaders of the Rassemblement National, who had feared a potential 're-demonization' of the party following the death of its co-founder, praised his career, encouraged by measured media coverage and political reactions.