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FILE - French former Prime minister Lionel Jospin attends a ceremony for the funeral of French designer Sonia Rykiel at Montparnasse cemetary in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French ex-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, architect of the 35-hour week, dies at 88

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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, center, is framed by Louis Aliot, left, and conservative lawmaker Eric Ciotti during National Rally president Jordan Bardella's New Year address to the press, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Marine Le Pen’s appeal trial opens in Paris, with far-right leader’s 2027 presidential bid at stake

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen arrives Notre Dame du Val-de-Grace church for a public memorial for her father and late far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025 in Paris. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's main far-right party, died on Jan.7, 2025 aged 96. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Crowds attend Paris memorial for far-right French leader Jean-Marie Le Pen under tight security

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French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, center, flanked by his daughter Marine Le Pen, and Bruno Gollnisch, arrives for a wreath-laying ceremony at the statue of Joan of Arc, within the party's traditional May Day march Saturday May 1, 2010, in Paris.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)

As Jean-Marie Le Pen is buried, here’s a look at key dates of the rise of the far right in France

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French far-right leader and presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen gestures as he delivers a speech after the announcement of the preliminary official results of the election's first round, Sunday, April 22, 2007, in Paris. (AP Photo/Michael Sawyer, File)

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader, dies at 96

By Thomas Adamson, Sylvie Corbet and Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, front, speaks to the media as she arrives at the court house in Paris, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France’s Le Pen denies wrongdoing as she and her party go on trial accused of embezzling EU funds

By Sylvie Corbet and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday Nov. 29, 2014 file photo, French far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie Le Pen applaud in Lyon, central France. A march against antisemitism this weekend in Paris, with the prime minister, government members, political parties and citizens in attendance, is fraught with discord over the planned presence of far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Her father and party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen has been convicted numerous times of antisemitism and racism. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen raises a storm over her plan to march against antisemitism

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers standing in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny threw a bombshell Wednesday April 20, 2022 into France's tight and tense presidential election campaign, alleging that Russian leader Vladimir Putin may have bought off French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen with a bank loan. Navalny offered no proof of his allegation, and made it clear he supports incumbent Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia’s Navalny accuses Le Pen of Kremlin ties before vote

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

In this June 22, 2018 file photo, Marion Marechal delivers a speech as she inaugurates the Institute of Social Sciences, Economics and Politics (ISSEP) in Lyon, central France. She vowed to stay out of politics and even dropped the French far right's signature name _ Le Pen _ from her moniker. But Marion Marechal, a former star lawmaker who’s still only in her 20s, is now tip-toeing back into the political arena, and is already causing trouble. Widely seen as a potential party leader, the 29-year-old’s discreet meetings in recent days to build bridges with enemy conservatives are further unsettling the mainstream right. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

Marion Marechal, formerly Marion Marechal Le Pen, resurfaces on French far right

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

In this June 22, 2018 file photo, Marion Marechal delivers a speech as she inaugurates the Institute of Social Sciences, Economics and Politics (ISSEP) in Lyon, central France. She vowed to stay out of politics and even dropped the French far right's signature name _ Le Pen _ from her moniker. But Marion Marechal, a former star lawmaker who’s still only in her 20s, is now tip-toeing back into the political arena, and is already causing trouble. Widely seen as a potential party leader, the 29-year-old’s discreet meetings in recent days to build bridges with enemy conservatives are further unsettling the mainstream right. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

Rising French far-right star resurfaces and flirts with fire

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

France: Veteran far-right head in hospital for 90th birthday

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Jean-Marie Le Pen used his oratory skills to denounce the "decadence" of French society, promote an anti-immigration "French first" agenda and try to cast doubt upon the Holocaust. (Associated Press)

National Front cuts ties to Jean-Marie Le Pen

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Far-right National Front party regional leader for southeastern France Marion Marechal-Le Pen attends a press conference in Bayonne, southwestern France, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. She is campaigning for far-right candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen, seen on poster behind. The top two vote-getters on April 23 will compete in a presidential runoff on May 7. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Marion Marechal-Le Pen CPAC invitation exposes fault lines on right

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

A Femen activist is led away by French police in Henin-beaumont, northern France, Sunday, May 7, 2017. Voters across France are choosing a new president in an unusually tense and important election that could decide Europe's future, making a stark choice between pro-business progressive candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

The Latest: Macron win cheered by Paris Olympic bid group

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People watch a live broadcast television debate with French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, right, and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, in a bar of Biarritz, southwestern France. Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron exchanged barbs and insults on Wednesday during their sole televised debate ahead of Sunday's runoff election. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

The Latest: French debate features insults to bitter end

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French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National party, Marine Le Pen, left, and French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement, Emmanuel Macron, pose prior to the start of a live broadcast face-to-face televised debate in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris, France, Wednesday, May 3, 2017 as part of the second round election campaign. Pro-European progressive Emmanuel Macron and far-right Marine Le Pen are facing off in their only direct debate before Sunday's presidential runoff election. (Eric Feferberg/Pool Photo via AP)

Le Pen and Macron clash in no holds-barred debate in France

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Real Madrid's coach Zinedine Zidane during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Deportivo La Coruna and Real Madrid at the Riazor stadium in A Coruna, Spain, Wednesday April 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)

Zidane says people should stop Le Pen in French election

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Far-right candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen speaks during a campaign meeting in Monswiller near Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. A self-described patriot, Le Pen hopes to extract France from the European Union and do away with France's membership in the shared euro currency. The two-round presidential election is set for April 23 and May 7. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

The Latest: Le Pen vows to tackle ‘root of evil’ in France

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Marine Le Pen, leader of France's National Front Party, celebrates with a breakout star: her 26-year-old niece, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, who was one of the big vote-getters Sunday in the southern region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur. (Associated Press)

Marine Le Pen’s National Front surges in France in ‘wake-up call’ for Europe

By Maya Vidon-White - Special to The Washington Times

**FILE** French Muslims attend a mass prayer Sept.16, 2011, at a prayer hall in a unused former fire station in Paris. (Associated Press)

French Muslims get call to vote for president

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press