Here's a look at the key dates in the life and career of one of France’s most controversial political figures, and his legacy: Born in 1928 in the western region of Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen ...

Born on June 20, 1928, in the seaside village of La Trinite-sur-Mer in Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s father, Jean, died in 1942 when a wartime mine blew up his fishing boat. A monarchist in his ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen was born on June 20, 1928, in La Trinité-sur-Mer, a seaside village in Brittany, to Jean Le Pen and Anne-Marie Hervé. His father, a fisherman, was killed when his boat was ...

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

Born June 20, 1928, in the Brittany village of Trinite-Sur-Mer, to Jean Le Pen, a fisherman who would die in World War II, and his wife, Anne-Marie, Jean-Marie Le Pen was attracted early to the ...

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 ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The leaders of the Rassemblement National, who had feared a potential 're-demonization' of the party following ...

FILE - French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, center, flanked by his daughter Marine Le Pen, and Bruno Gollnisch, arrives for a wreath-laying ceremony at the statue of Joan of Arc, within the ...

Born June 20, 1928, in the Brittany village of Trinite-Sur-Mer, to Jean Le Pen, a fisherman who would die in World War II, and his wife Anne-Marie, Jean-Marie Le Pen proved an ambitious son ...