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.

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — For years, Marine Le Pen stood at the gates of power — poised, relentless and rising. She stripped the French far right of its old symbols, sanded down its roughest edges and built in its ...

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 ...

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.