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The National Front, which has become the National Rally, celebrates its 50th anniversary on Wednesday 5 October. Initially, it was about bringing together the various far-right movements, but over the years the party has managed to gradually emerge from secrecy.
The National Front (FN), which has since become the National Rally (RN), celebrates its 50th anniversary on Wednesday 5 October. Jean Marie Le Pen was at its head when it was created. Former deputy of the Fourth Republic, he was not unknown to the French. To the birth of the FN, there were executives of the New Order, a nationalist movement born after May 68, but also former Waffen-SS and collaborators of Nazi Germany, as historian Valerie explains Igounet.
In 1980, Jean-Marie Le Pen established a rite: an annual tribute to Joan of Arc in front of her statue. It is from this moment also that the National Front comes out of confidentiality to settle in the political landscape. In the years that followed, Jean-Marie Le Pen made many slippages, which would lead to his exclusion from the party in 2016. So why Ct is in all discretion, by a simple colloquium in the Assembly, that the RN of Marine Le Pen will celebrate her father’s FN.