Background
LE PEN, Jean-Marie was born on June 20, 1928 in La Trinité-sur-Mer, Morbihan, France. Parents: Jean Le Pen and Anne-Marie Le Pen (née Hervé).
LE PEN, Jean-Marie was born on June 20, 1928 in La Trinité-sur-Mer, Morbihan, France. Parents: Jean Le Pen and Anne-Marie Le Pen (née Hervé).
St. FrançoisXavier Jesuit College, Vanne. Lorient College; Faculty of Law, Paris. Bachelor of Law, Higher degree in politics.
Deputy for the Seine, Sector 1, 1956. Member of National Assembly French Unity and Fraternity Group. Independent Deputy for the Seine (Paris, 5th arrondissement), 195862.
General Secretary, Front National Combattant (FNC, National Fighting Front), 1956. General Secretary, Tixier-Vignancour Committee, 1964-1965. Director of the Society of Studies and Public Relations, since 1963.
Chairman, Front National (FN, National Front), since 1972. Stood for presidential elections, 1974. Councillor for Paris (20th arondissement), 1983.
Elected to European Parliament, 1984, became Chairman of its European Right Group. National Front Deputy, Paris, 1986-1988. Chairman. Law Student’s Union, Paris, 1949-1951.
Sub-Lieutenant, 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion, Indochina. 1954; Political editor. Caravelle (journal of the French expeditionary force), 1955.
National delegate. Union for the Defence of French Youth, director of a collection of records, Hommes et faits du XXe Siècle (Men and deeds of the 20lh century).
Spouse Pierrette Lalanne. Children: Marie-Caroline, Yann, Marine.