Jean-Marie Le Pen has died.
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FILE - Pierre Poujade, center, whose newly formed anti-tax party has surprised the world by winning at least 50 seats in the French elections, with Andre Gayard, left, and Jean-Marie Le Pen, right, chats with two members of this party who have been elected to parliament, at his headquarters in Ablon, near Paris, France on Jan. 3, 1956.
FILE - Jean-Marie Le Pen, right, and his daughter Marine Le Pen sit at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, eastern France, July 14, 2009. FILE - Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris.
Marine Le Pen, thousands of kilometers away in the French territory of Mayotte, was inspecting the aftermath of destructive Cyclone Chido at the time of her father’s death. The portly, silver-haired son of a Breton fisherman viewed himself as a man with a mission — to keep France French under the banner of the National Front. Picking Joan of Arc as the party’s patron saint, Le Pen made Islam, and Muslim immigrants, his primary target, blaming them for the economic and social woes of France.
In election after election, he proved the spoiler, forcing rivals to scramble to counter him, and sometimes stoop to harvest far-right votes.
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