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Family To Bury Jean-Marie Le Pen After Death Divided France

Jean-Marie Le Pen's death divided France (Credit: AFP)

The co-founder of the main French postwar far-right movement Jean-Marie Le Pen is to be buried Saturday at a strictly family-only funeral after his death aged 96 exposed polarising attitudes towards a figure who for decades shook and shocked the country.

The funeral in his hometown of La Trinite-sur-Mer in the Morbihan region of Brittany in western France will take place "in the strictest privacy with family", his relatives said.

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