Experts argue the French rightwing leader's newfound distance from the U.S. president represents the growing legitimacy of her National Rally party.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she will never forgive herself for expelling her father Jean-Marie Le Pen from her party, after he died last week aged 96.

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.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party and a polarizing figure in French politics, is being buried in a private family ceremony in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany.

The leader of France's far-right Rassemblement National, a party founded by her late father in 1972 and previously named the Front National, expelled him in 2015 over his anti-Semitic remarks.

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

Senior Le Pen’s death closes one chapter, but the battle over his ideology and its grip on French politics is far from over

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.

made no secret of anti-Semitic views -- for which he received criminal convictions -- and boasted of torturing prisoners during France's war against Algeria. His politician daughter Marine Le Pen ...

But not all of the leading conservative populist parties in the world are the same — in rhetoric or on policy.

Jean-Marie Le Pen brought fascist views into the French mainstream, writes Nabila Ramdani. She reflects on his far-right legacy following his death.

France’s political dynamic, and the prospects for the Left within it, should be read within the broader trajectory of the country’s neoliberal paradigm. Now dominant for over four decades, this paradigm is built on pillars that structure the worldview of not only a large swath of France’s ruling elites (in the political,