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.

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, biography and the French election in 2002 in French

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Jean-Marie Halsdorf speaking at the inauguration of a freshwater pearl mussel breeding station at Kalborn, Luxembourg, in 2008.

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Although Nouvelle Résistance at first opposed the " national conservatives " of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front, it changed strategy, adopting the slogan " Less Leftism!

The most prominent attempt was a 22 August 1962 ambush at Petit-Clamart, a Paris suburb, planned by a military engineer who was not an OAS member, Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry.

Jean-Marie Le Pen's relative success at the French Presidential election, 2002 has been attributed in part to concerns about juvenile criminality.

One of Pigneaux's volunteers, Jean-Marie Dayot, reorganized Nguyễn Ánh's navy along European lines and defeated the Tây Sơn at Qui Nhơn in 1792.

He was presented at the Rencontres d ' Arles festival ( France ) in 1970 ( screening at the Théâtre Antique, " Brassaï " by Jean-Marie Drot ), in 1972 ( screening " Brassaï si, Vominino " by René Burri ), and in 1974 ( as guest of honour ).

Lamennais lost his mother at the age of five and as a result, he and his brother Jean-Marie were sent for education to an uncle, Robert des Saudrais at La Chênaie, an estate near Saint-Malo.

Front national and Mouvement national républicain made parallel campaigns with their respective militants for Jean-Marie Le Pen's candidature, excepted for a major Front national's rally in Lyon on March 11, 2007 where Mégret made an apparition within the guest ( however, he didn't speak at the tribune ).

When Pope John Paul I became Pope in 1978 he was informed of allegations of wrongdoing at the Institute for Works of Religion, and instructed Jean-Marie Villot, Cardinal Secretary of State and head of the papal Curia, to investigate the matter thoroughly.

In his analysis of the Adventures of Tintin, the academic Jean-Marie Apostolidès characterised the Secret of the Unicorn-Red Rackham's Treasure arc as being about the characters going on a " treasure hunt that turns out to be at the same time a search for their roots.

In his analysis of the Adventures of Tintin, the academic Jean-Marie Apostolidès characterised the Secret of the Unicorn-Red Rackham's Treasure arc as being about the characters going on a " treasure hunt that turns out to be at the same time a search for their roots.

Born in 1968 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, she is the youngest of the three daughters of Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Brittany politician and a former paratrooper with his first wife Pierrette Lalanne.

She has at numerous times distanced herself from some of Jean-Marie Le Pen's controversial statements, notably those relating to war-crimes.

Jean-Marie Pfaff ( born 4 December 1953 in Lebbeke ) is a Belgian former football goalkeeper who excelled at the 1986 FIFA World Cup and during his time at FC Bayern Munich.

Located at the former site of the early-1900s atelier of the Russian painter, Marie Vassilieff, the museum was founded by Roger Pic and Jean-Marie Drot as a nonprofit operation.

Jean-Marie Charpentier graduated in urbanism at the University of Paris in 1966, and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in 1969.

" She was dating photographer Jean-Marie Périer at this time and his shots featured on many of her record sleeves.

It is a successor to the review Futur Antérieur edited by Jean-Marie Vincent ( 1934-2004 ) and Toni Negri, at the dep.

On Sunday, a couple of hours before the race, there was a FIA driver's meeting and Senna requested to race director Roland Brunseryade that the tire walls at the chicanes be replaced with traffic cones because of the possibly of hitting the tires and rolling ; that happened to him during qualifying for the Mexican Grand Prix, and this heated up when FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre, Senna and a few other drivers had a brief argument over the regulations involving safety.

Senna had won his third world championship but the Brazilian put a damper on the celebrations in the post-race interview by making scathing comments about outgoing FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre and admitting that he intentionally rammed Alain Prost off the track the year before at Suzuka, leading to much resentment and criticism of Senna from the F1 community.