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Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (20 June 1928 – 7 January 2025), commonly known as Jean-Marie Le Pen (), was a French politician, lawyer and activist. He founded the far-right National Front (now National Rally) party and served as the party's president from 1972 to 2011 and as its honorary president from 2011 to 2015. He focused on issues related to immigration to France, the European Union, traditional culture and values, law and order, and France's high rate of unemployment. His progression in the 1980s is known as the " of minds" due to its noticeable effect on mainstream political opinion. His controversial speeches and his integration into public life made him a figure who polarized opinion. He was convicted of statements downplaying the Holocaust, and fined for incitement to discrimination regarding remarks made about Muslims in France. He was expelled from the party by his daughter Marine in 2015 after making controversial statements. Le Pen's longevity in politics an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For Peace And Freedom
The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is a far-right European political alliance and former European political party founded on 4 February 2015. The main member parties were involved in the defunct European National Front. The alliance wishes to establish a network of nationalist movements across Europe that will cooperate to strengthen their shared ideals. It cooperates and supports other nationalist groups across Europe that are not members, these include former party member Golden Dawn, Tricolour Flame, Alternative for Sweden and the ELAM. The alliance is described as neo-Nazi by several newspapers, and neo-fascist by others. The group works for "a Europe of sovereign nations in which the independent states work together on a confederated basis", and for the perennity and the safeguarding of ancestral European traditions such as the Christian tradition. Europa Terra Nostra The Europa Terra Nostra is the official European political foundation of the APF. The ETN was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Trinité-sur-Mer
La Trinité-sur-Mer (; ) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany, in north-western France. Inhabitants of La Trinité-sur-Mer are called ''Trinitains''. It is located east of Carnac. The town is primarily a port, with a seaside quay dotted by numerous seafood restaurants. The town is also known for its watersport competitions. Separated from the well known commune of Carnac in 1864, several of the famous neolithic standing stones in the Carnac stones fall within its boundaries, including the dolmens of Kerdeneven and Kermarquer, and the Petit-Ménec Alignments. Landmarks The ''Pont de Kerisper'' connects the commune to the neighbouring Saint-Philibert. The current bridge is a replacement, built in 1956, of the previous bridge which was destroyed by German bombing.http://frobar.info/golfe/trinite.php Notable residents * Alain Barrière (1935–2019), singer * Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928–2025), politician * Marine Le Pen (born 1968), politician Events * The 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Foreign Parachute Regiment
The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment () was an airborne regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army which dated its origins to 1948. The regiment fought in the First Indochina War as the three-time reconstituted 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion, the Suez Crisis and Algerian War, but was dissolved along with the 10th Parachute Division and 25th Parachute Division following the generals' putsch against part of the French government in 1961. Jeanpierre's regiment Legion Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Paul Jeanpierre (1912–1958), was considered the patron and symbol of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment. The camp of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment was named after him in 1959. Successive unit designations * 1 July 1948: Creation of the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion (1er BEP, I Formation) () * 31 December 1950: Unit dissolved after its destruction during the Route Coloniale 4 fighting in September–October 1950. * 8 March 1951: Reconstitution of 1st Foreign Parachute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Foreign Legion
The French Foreign Legion (, also known simply as , "the Legion") is a corps of the French Army created to allow List of militaries that recruit foreigners, foreign nationals into French service. The Legion was founded in 1831 and today consists of several specialties, namely infantry, Armoured Cavalry Arm, cavalry, Military engineering, engineers, and Airborne forces, airborne troops. It formed part of the Army of Africa (France), Armée d'Afrique, French Army units associated with French colonial empire, France's colonial project in North Africa, until the end of the Algerian War in 1962. Legionnaires are today renowned as highly trained soldiers whose training focuses on traditional military skills and on the Legion's strong ''Morale, esprit de corps'', as its men come from different countries with different cultures. Consequently, training is often described as not only physically challenging, but also very stressful psychologically. Legionnaires may apply for French citize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Army
The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (, , ), is the principal Army, land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Staff of the French Army (CEMAT), who is subordinate of the Chief of the Defence Staff (France), Chief of the Defence Staff (CEMA), who commands active service Army units and in turn is responsible to the President of France. CEMAT is also directly responsible to the Ministry of Armed Forces (France), Ministry of the Armed Forces for administration, preparation, and equipment. The French Army, following the French Revolution, has generally been composed of a mixed force of conscripts and professional volunteers. It is now considered a professional force, since the French Parliament suspended the Conscription in France, conscription of soldiers. Acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Fourth Republic
The French Fourth Republic () was the republican government of France from 27 October 1946 to 4 October 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution of 13 October 1946. Essentially a reestablishment and continuation of the French Third Republic which governed from 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War to 1940 during World War II, it suffered many of the same problems which led to its end. The French Fourth Republic was a parliamentary republic. Despite political dysfunction, the Fourth Republic saw an era of great economic growth in France and the rebuilding of the nation's social institutions and industry after World War II, with assistance from the United States through the Marshall Plan. It also saw the beginning of the rapprochement with France's longtime enemy Germany, which led to Franco-German co-operation and eventually to the European Union. The new constitution made some attempts to strengthen the executive branch of government to prevent the unstable situati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Maréchal
Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal (; ; born 10 December 1989), known as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen from 2010 to 2018, is a French politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2024 European Parliament election in France, 2024. She is part of the Le Pen family, as the granddaughter of National Rally, National Front (renamed National Rally in 2018) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of its later leader Marine Le Pen. Maréchal is a former member of the far-right National Front (FN) and served as the member of the National Assembly (France), National Assembly for the Vaucluse's 3rd constituency, 3rd constituency of Vaucluse from 2012 to 2017. Aged 22 years at the time of her election, she became France's youngest parliamentarian in modern political history. After the 2015 French regional elections, 2015 regional election, for which she received the best result for an FN candidate, she became the Leader of the Opposition in the Regional council (France), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Caroline Le Pen
Marie-Caroline Le Pen (born 23 January 1960) is a French politician and member of the Le Pen family. The eldest of the three daughters of Jean-Marie Le Pen and his first wife Pierrette Lalanne, she became involved in the National Front (FN) in her youth. She was regional councilor for Île-de-France from 1992 to 2004. When the FN split in 1998, she followed Bruno Mégret to the National Republican Movement (MNR) with her husband, Philippe Olivier. After a break up with her family, she became closer to her sister Marine Le Pen in the end of the 2000s, finally returning to the FN in 2016. She was re-elected to the Île-de-France regional council in 2021. In the 2024 legislative elections, Marie-Caroline Le Pen stood in the fourth constituency of Sarthe, the former constituency of François Fillon, who was Prime Minister of France between 2007 and 2012. She lost to Élise Leboucher Élise Leboucher (born 9 October 1982) is a French politician from La France Insoumise. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierrette Le Pen
Pierrette Le Pen (' Lalanne; born 10 September 1935) is a French model who was married to Jean-Marie Le Pen from 1960 to 1987, and the mother of Marie-Caroline Le Pen, Yann Le Pen and Marine Le Pen. She is also the grandmother of Marion Maréchal, the former Executive Vice President of Reconquête. Biography Pierrette was the daughter of a wine seller from the Landes department in southwestern France. Pierrette's first marriage was to Claude Giraud in 1956, which lasted until 1960. After divorcing Giraud, she worked briefly as a model. Pierrette Lalanne met Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1958, during a gala evening. She married him on June 29, 1960, at the town hall in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. They have three daughters together, Marie-Caroline Le Pen, Yann Le Pen, and Marine Le Pen. Initially, Pierrette Le Pen accompanied Jean-Marie in his political activities. However, in 1972, she left him due to his extreme views.Christophe Dubois and Christophe Deloire, ''Sexus Politicus' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tixier-Vignancour Committees
The Tixier-Vignancour Committees (''Comités Tixier-Vignancour'', also known as ''Comités TV'' and abbreviated as ''CTV'') was a political movement in France aligned with the far-right, founded by Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour for the 1965 French presidential election. After the election, in which Tixier-Vignancour secured 5.2% of the vote, the Comités TV transformed into the "Alliance républicaine pour les libertés et le progrès" (ARLP). The party did not achieve success and faded by 1974. History Beginnings Informally active since the previous year, the group was officially registered in the ''Journal officiel'' on July 17, 1964, under the name "Association pour le soutien de la candidature d'opposition nationale à la présidence de la République". Commonly referred to as "Tixier-Vignancour Committees" (Comités TV), it was led by far-right lawyer Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour.. From its inception, former deputy Jean-Marie Le Pen served as secretary general of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union For The Defense Of Tradesmen And Artisans
The Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans (French: ''Union de défense des commerçants et artisans''), known as Union and French Fraternity (French: ''Union et fraternité française)'' after 1956, was a right-wing populist political party in France from 1953 to 1962, led by Pierre Poujade. History The Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans was founded in 1953 by Pierre Poujade as a tax protest organisation in the Lot Department in Occitania. It published a newspaper, ''Fraternité française''. It also had an anthem, written by André Montagard in 1955. Poujade recruited up to 800,000 members. In the 1956 legislative election the party took 12.62% of the vote, winning 52 seats in the National Assembly, primarily from rural areas. In the assembly, the party changed its name to ''Union et fraternité françaises'' (Union and French Fraternity). One of its deputies was a young Jean-Marie Le Pen, elected for the Seine Department's 3rd electoral district. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
