The far-right Rassemblement National party's president spent part of his youth in Saint-Denis. Among those who knew him at the time – friends and classmates from the private high school where he volunteered to teach French to migrants – his political activism remain surprising.

Jordan Bardella, president of far-right National Rally party, leaves Notre Dame du Val-de-Grace church after a public memorial for her father and late far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, Thursday, Jan.

A prominent French news magazine deleted a photo showing the moment a tearful Marine Le Pen learned of her father's death following criticism of the image from her far-right party.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the longtime figurehead of France's far-right political movement and father of its current leader, has reportedly died.

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."It's moving for me to pay my last respects to him here and to pray for the salvation of his soul,

He was known for his fiery anti-immigrant rhetoric that earned him both staunch support and widespread condemnation.

Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally ... Exclusive portrait of Jean Marie Le Pen in his house in Paris taken on Dec. 13 2019. Founder of the French far-right political party, the ...

Jordan Bardella, president of the RN party ... A monarchist in his youth, Le Pen attended law school in Paris in the 1940s and in 1954 joined the French Foreign Legion, serving as a paratrooper ...

France’s new prime minister, François Bayrou, has announced the renegotiation of a contested plan raising the retirement age from 62 to 64

Many of the European politicians expected to be in Washington on Monday share President-elect Donald J. Trump’s anti-immigrant stance.

Francois Bayrou on Thursday survived his first vote of no confidence in parliament after the motion, brought by the leftist opposition, failed to gain traction with the far right.

The no-confidence motion won the backing of 131 deputies, well short of the 288 it needed to pass — but the far right has vowed to keep its options open once budget negotiations begin.