Jean-Marie Le Pen Dies at 96

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Obituary: Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of French far right

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Jean-Marie Le Pen founded France 's far right in the 1970s and mounted a strong challenge for the presidency.

His supporters saw him as a charismatic champion of the every man, unafraid to speak out on hard topics.

For several decades he was seen as France 's most controversial political figure.

A Holocaust denier and an unrepentant extremist on race, gender and immigration, he devoted his political career to pushing his views into the French political mainstream.

Jean-Marie Le Pen ran for the presidency in 1974 for the FN, but won less than 1% of the vote.

The party gradually attracted voters with its increasingly strident anti-immigration policy.

In a notorious interview in 1987 , he played down the Holocaust - Nazi Germany 's murder of six million Jews .

He would later call the euro "the currency of occupation".

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