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Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the far-right National Front, died on Tuesday at the age of 96. Le Pen was often embroiled in legal battles over his racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic remarks, and was eventually expelled from the party he founded, which has since moved from the fringes to…

Here is a short history of the French far-right National Front, whose historic leader and co-founder Jean-Marie Le Pen died on Tuesday aged 96.

Renowned French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen's passing marks the end of an era in the country's political history.

Jean-Marie Le Pen has died

Unrepentant racist and Holocaust denier founded the National Front in 1972

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died Tuesday aged 96, was the far-right bogeyman of French politics, infamously dismissing the Holocaust as a detail of history and spending half a century whipping up anger over immigration.

Le Pen was a polarising figure in France who caused outrage with many of his views

Former paratrooper led National Front party for decades and courted controversy, being repeatedly fined for contesting crimes against humanity

National Rally chief Marine Le Pen on Sunday branded as insufficient French government plans to rebuild Mayotte following the devastation left on the Indian Ocean archipelago by Cyclone Chido on 9 December.

Le Pen, 56, spoke a day after President Emmanuel Macron named a new government under Francois Bayrou, his fourth prime minister of the year, to drag the second-largest EU economy out of political crisis.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Tuesday that the days of France's new government are already numbered, predicting an early presidential election in a few months.