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Famous French Writers Deliver Eulogies for Jean-Marie Le Pen
“Hell is- other people! Specifically Monsieur Le Pen.”
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France’s modern political far-right who built a half-century career on rants of barely disguised racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi propaganda, died on Tuesday in Garches, west of Paris. He was 96.
-The New York Times, 1/7/25
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“Hell is- other people! Specifically Monsieur Le Pen, for whom we are gathered here today.”
“A Nazi sympathizer died today. Or maybe it was January 7, I’m not sure.”
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul. Then Jean-Marie Le Pen told him to leave the country.”
“Jean-Marie Le Pen’s life had value so long as he attributed value to the life of others. Which, in his quest for ethnic purity, he did not.”
