A French court on Monday barred Marine Le Pen from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect, for embezzlement -- a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and ...

French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen is seen arriving at a Paris court on Monday, March 31, 2025, in Paris. She was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running for public office. (AP ...

French Revolution. Divorce Papers and Sauce-Stained Sleeves Reveal the Personal Side of Napoleon’s Rise and Fall. More than 100 objects connected to the French emperor just sold at auction.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded France's far-right National Front party, has died at 96 years old. Le Pen was a controversial and confrontational figure, seen by some as xenophobic.

A fixture for decades in French politics, the fiery Jean-Marie Le Pen was a wily political strategist and gifted orator who used his charisma to captivate crowds with his anti-immigration message. 4.

French Far-Right Firebrand Jean-Marie Le Pen Dies at 96. The founder of France's National Rally party, and father of Marine Le Pen, pioneered Trump-style populist, anti-immigrant politics.

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 National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen has died aged 96, a ...