For generations, Marine Le Pen’s family have held the reins of France’s nationalist party. Now Le Pen must decide whether to fight for her political future or make way for a successor.

Could the National Rally retaliate in parliament by attempting to bring down the fragile coalition government?

France's Le Pen convicted of graft ... supported far-right German party celebrating historic election gains Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far right, dies aged 96 Far right wins first ...

After years trying to moderate her party’s image, the far-right leader, convicted of embezzlement, now voices Trump-like ...

The judges who convicted the far-right would-be presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of embezzlement have received threats and are under protection.

Paris, France – On Sunday ... she has sought to normalise the hard right and distance it from the rule of Jean Marie Le Pen, her late father who founded the National Front, a party that lived ...

Since the party’s creation in 1972, the National Rally has always been led by either Le Pen or her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died earlier this year. Recent polling had indicated that Le Pen ...

In France, judges are independent magistrates ... And Le Pen's father, the late Jean-Marie Le Pen, was sentenced to a one-year ban for committing violence against a Socialist rival during the ...

There was also unease within the political mainstream in France, with the leader of ... from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011 and set about de-toxifying its image with voters.

French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen attends a party meeting in Nanterre, France, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon. File) Honorary President of far-right party ...

Jean-Luc Mélenchon looks in an uncharacteristically good mood as he flicks through L’Humanité, the French Communist daily at ...