IN HIS Nineteenth-century mansion on a bluff overlooking Paris, Jean-Marie Le Pen stored in his cluttered place of business a number of nautical memorabilia, together with an enormous pair of brass, stand-mounted binoculars. It’s simple to consider the far-right French chief, who died on January seventh on the age of 96, coaching his indignant gaze on the town beneath: overrun, he would rant, like the rustic, by way of immigrants, Muslims, Jews, homosexual other folks and all others he judged unwanted. Greater than arguably every other post-war chief in Europe, over his seven a long time in public lifestyles Mr Le Pen used to be chargeable for reviving an excessive type of xenophobic politics, which these days has turn into increasingly more mainstream.
