A dilemma: do I publish a post on Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died yesterday 7 January, 2025...
Needless to say, no glorification here, but since he did wear berets, be it mainly military, he deserves a place here.
Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-2025), was a French far-right
politician who served as president of the National Front from 1972 to 2011 and
honorary president of the same party from 2011 to 2015.
Le Pen started his political career as president of the Association Corporative des étudiants en droit, an association of law students whose main occupation was to engage in street brawls against the "Cocos" (communists). He was excluded from this organisation in 1951.
After receiving his law degree, Le Pen enlisted in the Foreign Legion. He arrived in French Indochina after the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu. Le Pen voluntarily reengaged himself for two to three months in the Foreign Legion in 1957 and was then sent to Algeria (1957) as an intelligence officer. He was accused of having engaged in torture.
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| Jean-Marie Le Pen decorated by General Massu, at the Villa Sésini, in Algiers, at the end of March 1957 |
In 1972, Le Pen founded the Front National (FN) party. His daughter Marine took the party’s leadership in 2011 and expelled him four years later, seeking -unsuccessfully- to distance the movement from his extremist reputation. The party has since been renamed the National Rally (RN).
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