French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, ex-National Front leader and father of Marine Le Pen, dies aged 96

Beloved Conservative Political Figure Passes Away at Age 96

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who established France’s National Front party and was the father of Marine Le Pen, died at the age of 96, leading French conservatives […]

Jean-Marie Le Pen, co-founder of the far-right National Front party, died on January 7, at the age of 96.

Nearly a thousand people gathered at Place de la République in Paris on Tuesday evening to “celebrate” the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen. The figure of the French extreme right and the founder of the National Front died in Garches in Hauts-de-Seine on January 7.

Father of the French far right dies

Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose ultranationalist and conservative views enraged millions but also shaped the contemporary French political scene, died on Tuesday at 96. Le Pen was a far-right fixture of French politics for nearly five decades as a legislator in the French and European parliaments, and as founder and leader of the National Front party, which he founded in the early 1970s. What were his politics? A theatrical orator and a fierce opponent…

News of Le Pen's death sparked rallies in several French cities, including Lyon and Paris.

Several thousand demonstrators gathered on Tuesday evening in Place de la République to celebrate the death of the founder of the FN. Among them, a large majority of young people from the extreme left. Scenes described as “shameful” by Bruno Retailleau, the Minister of the Interior.