”
data-script=”https://static.lefigaro.fr/widget-video/short-ttl/video/index.js”
>
Jean-Marie Le Pen took his last breath this Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at the age of 96. After several difficult months, the founder of the National Front died in Garches, in the Paris region. But where will he be buried?
Where will Jean-Marie Le Pen rest for eternity? While his family announced his death, at the age of 96, this Tuesday, January 7, the details of his funeral are already partially known. Aware of his fragile state of health, the creator of the National Front spoke of his relationship with death a few years ago in his memoirs. Forever traumatized by the death of his sailor father, Jean, victim of a mine brought up by mistake by his trawler in 1942, Jany’s husband will always claim his wish to be buried near him, in the family plot in the cemetery from Trinité-sur-Mer, his hometown.
In 2018, the patriarch confided in L’Express revealing what he wanted written on his tombstone. He then explained that he wanted only his first name to be included. “I would probably be in the small cemetery of La Trinité-sur-Mer in my family vault. (…) I thought of a marble plaque marked Jean-Marie, since I would be in the Le Pen tomb”he declared, before insisting: “There is no need to say my name, just my first name. »
-PHOTOS – Jean-Marie Le Pen: a look back at the women who mattered in his life
The death of his father, the eternal sorrow of Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen was only fourteen years old when he became a ward of the nation, after the sudden death of his father, considered dead for France. “ My father went out on the afternoon of August 21, a Saturday, contrary to usual: he had to satisfy a large order of sole, the restaurant’s luxury dish during this period of restrictions.remembered the politician in his autobiography. Before going to sea, Jean Le Pen asked him to be “nice to (s)his mother” because his only son was “big now”.
An instruction that will resonate for a long time in Jean-Marie Le Pen like a sinister premonition. At the time, mines that fell to the bottom of the sea were “The Sailor’s Terror”. “Fishing means going to the front every day. War adds to the natural dangers of war”also wrote Jean-Marie Le Pen.
