Jean-Marie Le Pen, the politician who died aged 86 this month, adopted Joan of Arc as a symbol of his far-right National Front, now renamed National Rally and led by his daughter Marine.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French far-right political ... Drawing inspiration from Joan of Arc, whom he named as the party's patron saint, Le Pen focused his rhetoric on Islam and Muslim ...

FILE - Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File) (Kamil ...

PARIS (JTA) — A French court upheld the Holocaust denial conviction of the far-right activist Jean-Marie Le Pen, while a different tribunal acquitted another prominent racist of hate incitement ...