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Jean Louis Marie "Jean-Marie" Le Pen was a French politician who founded the far-right National Front party. He served as the party's president from 1972 to 2011 and as its honorary president from 2011 to 2015.
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Born 20 June 1928 · Died 7 January 2025 · Q7177
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s Jean-Marie Le Pen has been expelled from the far-right National Front (FN) following a feud with daughter and party leader Marine. Mr Le Pen, who was honorary president, was dismissed after a three-hour extraordinary party congress. He was initially suspended back in May, after he repeated his view that the Holocaust was
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“s Jean-Marie Le Pen has been expelled from the far-right National Front (FN) following a feud with daughter and party leader Marine. Mr Le Pen, who was honorary president, was dismissed after a three-hour extraordinary party congress. He was initially suspended back in May, after he repeated his view that the Holocaust was”
“the city of Toulon will then have to get along without the vocalisations of singer Benguigui”
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Yahoo: French far-right icon Jean-Marie Le Pen buried in Brittany
Yahoo: As Jean-Marie Le Pen is buried, here's a look at key dates of the rise of the far right in France
WGN-TV: Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96
KSAT: Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader, dies at 96
Bloomberg L.P.: Jean-Marie Le Pen, Architect of French Far Right, Dies at 96
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader who was convicted of Holocaust denial, dies at 96
Died 2025-01-07.
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Deadline.com: Jean-Marie Le Pen Dies: French Far-Right Politician Was 96
“Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.”
“Jean-Marie LE PEN à Sa Majesté le roi du Maroc et au peuple marocain, présente ses plus amicales condoléances pour le deuil qui les frappe. 🐦🔗: https:// nitter.cz/lepenjm/status/17006 02592194183325#m [2023-09-09 20:10 UTC]”
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen improvisé !”.
“Chaque 1er mai, depuis 1988, nous honorions Jeanne d'Arc et le Travail, le spirituel et le temporel, l'amour de la patrie et le goût de l'effort. Souvenirs ineffaçables. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/lepenjm/statu s/1652999584937922563”
“30 avril 1863, bataille de Camerone : Honneur aux légionnaires français. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/lepenjm/statu s/1652662431800328197”
“Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°696 https:// youtu.be/L6JYp40va7E via @YouTube 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/lepenjm/statu s/1646416110768603136”
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°696”.
“Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°695 https:// youtu.be/nmmbA8H0CLk via @YouTube 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/lepenjm/statu s/1641392025093443584”
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°695”.
“Maire emblématique de Ploërmel (Morbihan) durant plus de 30 ans, Paul ANSELIN disparait à l'âge de 91 ans. Nous nous connaissions depuis l'époque marquée par la guerre d'Algérie. Je salue avec nostalgie la mémoire de ce français de caractère. 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/lepenjm/statu s/1634186468196249602”
“Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°694 https:// youtu.be/j6e8HS0pIpA via @YouTube 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/lepenjm/statu s/1633755714064723968”
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°694”.
“Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°693 https:// youtu.be/oUFv1pXd13s via @YouTube 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/lepenjm/statu s/1631225510108774406”
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°693”.
“Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°692 https:// youtu.be/LyIZSkc5BnE via @YouTube 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/lepenjm/statu s/1630510309134811136”
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°692”.
“RT @saintaff: A toutes fins utiles, l'annonce par un site bidon du décès de Jean-Marie LE PEN est du domaine assez courant de la malveillance : Il termine son petit déjeuner et déclare : "Petit bonhomme pas mort". 🐦🔗: https:// n.respublicae.eu/lepenjm/statu s/1626525713778999300”
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°691”.
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°690”.
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°689”.
Published video “Journal de bord de Jean-Marie Le Pen n°688”.
In a ceremony presided by traditionalist Catholic priest Philippe Laguérie
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Career landmark: Participated in fête de la Courtoisie (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in Journée nationale et identitaire (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (2014–2019).
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (2009–2014).
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And 2008, Le Pen was fined, in both cases €10,000 for "incitement to discrimination, hatred and violence towards a group of people", on account of statements made about Muslims in France
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (2004–2009).
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When the Cour de cassation (French supreme jurisdiction) concluded that it was legitimate to publish these assertions
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1999–2003).
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The European Parliament, of which Le Pen was then a member, removed his parliamentary immunity so that Le Pen could be tried by a German court for comments he made at a December 1996 press conference before the German Re
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Stated that "If you take a 1,000-page book on World War II, the concentration camps take up only two pages and the gas chambers 10 to 15 lines
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“If you take a 1,000-page book on World War II, the concentration camps take up only two pages and the gas chambers 10 to 15 lines. This is what one calls a detail.”
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Le Pen unsuccessfully sued Jean Dufour, regional councillor of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (French Communist Party) for the same reason
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1994–1999).
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And 1998 he was elected to the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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Le Pen's invitation to London by Conservative MPs was militantly protested by large numbers coordinated by the Campaign Against Fascism in Europe (CAFE), which led to a surge of anti-fascist groups and activity across Eu
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1989–1994).
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Lost his reelection bid for the National Assembly in Bouches-du-Rhône's 8th constituency when he was defeated in the second round by Socialist Marius Masse
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That "I'm not saying the gas chambers didn't exist
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1986–1988).
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Le Pen won a seat in the European Parliament and was consistently reelected since then
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1984–1989).
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As he failed to gather the necessary 500 signatures of elected officials
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Le Pen inherited a fortune from Hubert Lambert (1934–1976), son of the cement industrialist Leon Lambert (1877–1952), one of three sons of Lambert Cement founder Hilaire Lambert
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His Parisian apartment was blown up with dynamite (he had been living at that time in his mansion of Montretout in Saint-Cloud)
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Le Pen founded the Front National (FN) party
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Studied at Panthéon-Assas University Paris (1971).
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By him and Jean-Loup Vincent, was titled Le courant anarchiste en France depuis 1945 ("The anarchist movement in France since 1945")
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Created the Société d'études et de relations publiques (Serp), a company involved in the music industry that specialized in historical recordings and sold recordings of the choir of the CGT trade union and songs of th
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Le Pen lost his seat in the Assembly
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Career landmark: senator of the Community (1959–1961).
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Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1958–1962).
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Le Pen became the general secretary of the National Front of Combatants, a veterans' organization
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Was elected to the National Assembly as a member of Pierre Poujade's populist UDCA party
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A year before the beginning of the Algerian War, he contacted President Vincent Auriol, who approved Le Pen's proposed volunteer disaster relief project after a flood in the Netherlands
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Paschos was previously married to Belgian businessman Jean Garnier
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Born 1928-06-20.
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Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.
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