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:

* Jean-Marie Le Pen 17. 79 %

* 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.

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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* September 30 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Jean-Marie Le Pen announced in September 2008 that he would retire as FN president in 2010.

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

Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger ( April 29, 1837 – September 30, 1891 ) was a French general and reactionary politician.

An injury postponed his first defense against Jean-Marie Emebe of Cameroon, but the two would hook up in Indianapolis in September of that year.

Jean-Marie Lehn ( born September 30, 1939 ) is a French chemist.

When Paul West starts his new job in September he is altogether unaware of the true character and the machinations of his boss, Jean-Marie Martin, who is in his early fifties, rich, handsome, impeccably dressed, friendly, and prepared to pay him a good salary.

Jean-Marie Philémon Joseph Beetz, ( March 27, 1927 – September 30, 1991 ) was a Canadian jurist and puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

As a response Tilgher formed his own group in September of that year, initially calling it Fronte Nazionale ( a name already used twice before on the Italian far right ) and basing it on the French National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Jean-Marie Poitras, ( September 5, 1918 – February 27, 2009 ) was a Canadian senator.

The abbé Jean-Marie Perrot, in Breton Yann Vari Perrot ( September 3, 1877, Plouarzel, Finistère – December 12, 1943, Scrignac ), was a French priest, Breton independentist and collaborator assassinated by the communist resistance.

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

In 2005, Jean-Marie Le Pen considered in the far-right weekly magazine Rivarol that the German occupation of France " was not particularly inhumane even if there were some blunders ," and in 1987 referred to the Nazi gas chambers as " a point of detail of the Second World War.

The current bishop is Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin, who was appointed in 2005.

* Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin 2005 -

His friend Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières ( MSF ), criticized him for " absolving the intolerable ," while Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger ( and archbishop of Paris from 1981 to 2005 ) publicly disavowed him.

Jean-Marie Leblanc ( born July 27, 1944 in Nueil-sur-Argent, now Nueil-les-Aubiers, Deux-Sèvres ) is a French retired professional road bicycle racer who was general director of the Tour de France from 1989 to 2005, when he reached pensionable age and was succeeded by Christian Prudhomme.

* " Jean-Marie Halsdorf ", Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union, 2005.

To Paint or Make Love () is a 2005 film directed by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu.