Engdahl announces J. M. G. Le Clézio | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio winning the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 9, 2008.

Jacques Chirac was reelected in 2002, mainly because his socialist rival Lionel Jospin was defeated by the extreme right wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

However, a third contender, Jean-Marie Le Pen, unexpectedly obtained slightly more than Jospin in the first round of elections:

* Jean-Marie Le Pen 16. 86 %

Jean-Marie Le Pen, however, was widely recognized as a controversial nationalist candidate, and in the second round a vast majority of the voters rejected him:

* Extreme-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen qualifies for second round of French Presidential Elections.

While not being present in the national parliaments of France and the United Kingdom, Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front came second in the first round of the 2002 French presidential elections, and in the 2009 European Parliament election, the UK Independence Party came second, beating even the Labour Party, while the British National Party managed to win two seats for the first time.

* April 21 – French presidential election, 2002: The first round results in a runoff between Jacques Chirac and the leader of the main French far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

He allegedly refused any alliance with Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National.

It had been expected that he would face incumbent prime minister Lionel Jospin ( PS ) in the second round of elections ; instead, Chirac faced controversial far right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen of National Front ( FN ) who came in 200, 000 votes ahead of Jospin.

He was labelled a far-right populist by his opponents and in the media, but he fiercely rejected this label and explicitly distanced himself from " far-right " politicians such as the Belgian Filip Dewinter, the Austrian Jörg Haider, or Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Pen whenever compared to them.

Fortuyn was compared with the politicians Jörg Haider and Jean-Marie Le Pen in the foreign press.

Jean-Marie Le Bris | Le Bris and his glider, Albatros II, photographed by Nadar ( photographer ) | Nadar, 1868

In 1856, Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris made the first powered flight, by having his glider " L ' Albatros artificiel " pulled by a horse on a beach.

Jean-Marie Le Pen (; born 20 June 1928 ) is a French right-wing and nationalist politician who is founder and former president of the Front National ( National Front ) party.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, September 2005

On 31 May 1991, Jean-Marie Le Pen married Jeanne-Marie Paschos (" Jany "), of Greek descent.

Jean-Marie Le Pen is also godfather of Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff, who painted his portrait in 2006.

National advertisement in Marseille, predicting the now unrealised possibility of Jean-Marie Le Pen becoming President in 2007

Jean-Marie Le Pen speaking at the National Front ( France ) | Front National's annual tribute to Joan of Arc in Paris ( 1 May 2007 )

* Jean-Marie Le Pen, biography and the French election in 2002 in French

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* Jacques Chirac wins the French presidential elections with 82. 21 % of the vote to 17. 79 % for Jean-Marie Le Pen, the turnout was 79. 71 %.

Cantona has two brothers, Jean-Marie, who is four years older ; and Joël, who is 17 months younger.

Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger (; 17 September 1926 – 5 August 2007 ) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Donald James Cram ( April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001 ) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen " for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity.

Her national result was higher in percentage and votes than those of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the 2002 presidential election ( 16. 86 %, 4, 804, 772 votes in the first round ; 17. 79 %, 5, 525, 034 votes in the run-off ).

Her regional result and the one in Pas-de-Calais were higher in percentage than those of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the run-off of the 2002 presidential election ( 21. 89 %, 445, 357 votes ; 22. 17 %, 170, 967 votes ).

Jean-Marie Charles Abrial ( 17 December 1879, Réalmont, Tarn-19 December 1962, Dourgne ) was a French Admiral and Naval Minister.

On 26 October 1961, Georges Montaron, editor of Témoignage Chrétien, Claude Bourdet, editor of France Observateur, Emmanuel d ' Astier de la Vigerie, editor of Libération, Avril, editor of Télérama, parish priest Lochard, Jean-Marie Domenach, editor of Esprit magazine, Jean Schaeffert and André Souquière organized in the Mutualité a meeting to " protest against police violences and the repression of the 17 October 1961 demonstration in Paris ".

Jean-Marie LeClair still is remembered a bit, but Bodin De Beismortier, Corrette and Mondonville are hardly household words.

Other up-and-coming filmmakers allied themselves to this Oberhausen group, among them Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog, Jean-Marie Straub, Wim Wenders, Werner Schroeter and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg in their rejection of the existing German film industry and their determination to build a new industry founded on artistic excellence rather than commercial dictates.

* Mayeur, Jean-Marie, and Madeleine Rebirioux.

* 2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor ( b. 1920 )

He answers to the civil Minister for Defence in the civilian government, currently Jean-Marie Halsdorf, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration.

* 1920 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor ( d. 2004 )

* 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA ( b. 1921 )

* Jean-Marie Dubois, Useful quasicrystals, World Scientific, Singapore 2005.

The story was later adapted into a five-act tragic opera, Scylla et Glaucus ( 1746 ), by the French composer Jean-Marie Leclair.

* 1918 – Jean-Marie Poitras, Canadian politician ( d. 2009 )

* Jean-Marie Valentin, Alexander von Humboldt: 150e anniversaire de sa mort, Paris, Didier Érudition.

** Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor ( d. 2004 )

* October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, French composer and violinist ( murdered ) ( b. 1697 )

* Chemistry – Donald J Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen

* June 6 – Jean-Marie Collot d ' Herbois, French revolutionary ( b. 1749 )