Le-Pen’s Notorious ‘Detail’ Remark About World War II
Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front party stunned the world on April 21, 2002, when he came in second in the French presidential race, to challenge the incumbent Jacques Chirac. In the May 5 runoff election, Le Pen garnered 18 percent of the vote. Press coverage of the veteran nationalist…