Around 100 police officers were on duty for the funeral in La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany ... In 1972, Le Pen co-founded the National Front and led it for nearly four decades.

Residents in western France used boats to escape their flooded homes on Monday as rivers and waterways broke their banks after successive storms battered Normandy and Brittany.

From founding the National Front party – which his daughter has ... Born on June 20, 1928, in the seaside village of La Trinite-sur-Mer in Brittany, Jean-Marie Le Pen’s father, Jean, died ...

Le Pen was born in 1928 in Brittany, France, and entered politics following activism as a student. In 1972, he founded the National Front party, a coalition of extremist groups that steadily ...