Brigitte Bardot is supporting Front National candidate Marine Le Pen in the 2012 French Presidential Election.

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.

* Marine Le Pen, a French politician

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.

Thousands take to the street all over France to protest against Le Pen.

** Chirac ( 19. 88 %), Le Pen ( 16. 86 %), Jospin ( 16. 18 %), Bayrou ( 6. 5 %), Lauguiller ( 5. 72 %), Mamere ( 5. 25 %), Chevenement ( 5. 32 %), Besancenot ( 4. 5 %), Saint-Josse ( 4. 0 %), Hue ( 3. 6 %).

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.

** Marine Le Pen, French politician

* 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.

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.

All parties outside the National Front ( except for Lutte ouvrière ) called for opposing Le Pen, even if it meant voting for Chirac.

The 14-day period between the two rounds of voting was marked by demonstrations against Le Pen and slogans such as " Vote for the crook, not for the fascist " or " Vote with a clothespin on your nose ".

Chirac wrote he considered firing Sarkozy before, and conceded responsibility in allowing Jean Marie Le Pen to advance in 2002.

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.

An explicit comparison with Le Pen was made by Ad Melkert, then lijsttrekker of the Labour Party, who said in Emmen on 24 April 2002:

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.

Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, most notably in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than the main left candidate, Lionel Jospin.

Le Pen again ran in the 2007 French presidential election and finished fourth.

Le Pen focuses on immigration to France, the European Union, traditional culture, law and order and France's high rate of unemployment.

In other legal cases, Pissarro's " Le Quai Malaquais, Printemps ," is said to have been similarly stolen, along with the estimated 650, 000 lost works of art, including those by other French Impressionists.

Elizabeth's intention had been to exchange Le Havre for Calais, lost to France in January 1558.

When Le Guin finally requested that Miyazaki produce an anime adaptation of her work, he refused, because he had lost the desire to do so.

The two made up their differences and William agreed to help Robert recover lands lost to France, notably Le Maine.

This was followed by two more films, " Le Cauchemar du fantoche " Puppet's Nightmare ", now lost and " Un Drame chez les fantoches " Puppet Drama ", called " The Love Affair in Toyland " for American release and " Mystical Love-Making " for British release, all completed in 1908.

Among the works exhibited were Le Fauconnier's vast composition Les Montagnards attaqués par des ours ( Mountaineers Attacked by Bears ) now at Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Joseph Csaky's Deux Femme, Two Women ( a sculpture now lost ), in addition to the highly abstract paintings by Kupka, Amorpha ( The National Gallery, Prague ), and Picabia, La Source, The Spring ( Museum of Modern Art, New York ).

* R 1. 09 Le ' mbroglie de le Bajasse ( carnival 1767, Naples ) — lost

Sarah's birth records were lost in a fire in 1871, but in order to prove French citizenship, necessary for Légion d ' honneur eligibility, she created false birth records, on which she was the daughter of " Judith van Hard " and " Edouard Bernardt " from Le Havre, in later stories either a law student, accountant, naval cadet or naval officer.

Le Pen claimed that he had lost his left eye when he was savagely beaten during the 1958 election campaign.

In 1962, Le Pen lost his seat at the Assembly.

Although he denied it, he lost a trial when he attacked Le Monde newspaper on charges of defamation, following accusations by the newspaper that he had used torture.

France lost New France to the British through six colonial wars ( see the four French and Indian Wars as well as Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War ).

By now he had composed several works including Estelle et Némorin and Le passage de la mer Rouge ( The Crossing of the Red Sea ) – both now lost – the latter of which convinced Lesueur to take Berlioz on as one of his private pupils.

Saint Joseph ’ s and its 110-metre-tall spire holds significant value for the city as it is a built remembrance for Le Havre residents who lost their lives during the war.

David I. Grossvogel, describes this situation as the " restoration of a childhood paradise lost ," attributing Le Voyageur Sans Bagage as the beginning of Anouilh's search to justify his the unhappiness of his youth.

The campaign further lost ground when the Revolutionary Communist League published a denunciation of Le Pen's alleged involvement in torture during his time in Algeria.

In fact, even before this time, Le Morte D ' Arthur states that he had lost a cubit of height due to his penitent fastings and prayers.

Just over a year after the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1940, the house which Le Mesurier had rented was hit by a bomb and he lost all his possessions ; the same bombing raid had also hit the theatre in Brixton in which he was working.

He lost his function of state minister, and joined the opposition, siding with the Ultra-royalist group supporting the future Charles X, and becoming one of the main writers of its mouthpiece, Le Conservateur.

It lost both to The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

He also composed the first opera written in Brazil, Le Due Gemelle ( The Two Twins ), with text in Italian, but the music is now lost.

* Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 given to the people of France after World War I in which Albert Herter lost a son

Chris Sutton and Graeme Le Saux missed a lot of games through injury and Tim Sherwood lost form.

For example, in the Alpes-Maritimes, Sarkozy performed 21. 6 % better than Chirac did in 2002 while Le Pen lost 12. 6 % in five years.