Jean-Marie Le Pen was a polarising figure in French politics known for his fiery rhetoric that included Holocaust denial.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the French far-right National Front party, has died aged 96. Le Pen shook the French political establishment when he unexpectedly reached the presidential election run-off vote against Jacques Chirac in 2002, with his pugnacious mix of populism and charisma.
She has since run for the presidency three times and turned the party, now called the National Rally, into one of the country's main political forces. Born in 1928, Le Pen was a polarising figure known for his fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation.
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