Family saga
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After the death of the founder of the FN this Tuesday, January 7, Marine Le Pen will walk for the first time without her father. From a childhood disrupted by absence to “patricide” in 2015, a look back at a relationship that borrowed from a bad soap opera as well as from ancient tragedy.
-Between the daughter and the father, there is first of all the striking physical resemblance. The blond hair, the hard, almost gravelly voice, the massive gait. Laughter, too, so powerful when it bursts out after a witticism or an outburst against a political opponent, a journalist. “Marine is the absolute clone of her father,” had, one day in 1998, expressed his mother, Pierrette, on the microphone of Europe 1. “It’s Jean-Marie Le Pen, physically, morally, and with extra hair,” added the one who had conceived bitterness for the preference of her daughter towards her other sire.
The rest is up to par. “Since she was little, Marine has always shown the same character traits as Le Pen, remembered Yann, the older sister, in Released, in 2015. She’s Miss Cheating Death and Miss Good Humor. She was never a whiner or a sulker. She is sure of herself and never shows her doubts.” During the 2022 campaign, certain fellow travelers, rare survivors to have served both first names of the dynasty, still saw the father’s formulas return to the daughter’s mouth. “I have the calm of the old troops,” she repeated to them, when the frontist ship was rocking under the blows of Eric Zemmour. “No need to get agitated on deck when there is no wind” ; “Sit by the river
