BBC News | Le Pen: A Life in pictures

Over the next decade, the National Front encountered mixed fortunes. In 1987 Le Pen sparked a furore when he referred to the Holocaust as "a detail of history".

But a year later, after a campaign focused on fears over immigration levels, Front National saw its poll standing rise to 14%.

	Courting controversy		Le Pen at home in St Cloud, Paris 1988
	Over the next decade, the National Front encountered mixed fortunes. In 1987 Le Pen sparked a furore when he referred to the Holocaust as "a detail of history". But a year later, after a campaign focused on fears over immigration levels, Front National saw its poll standing rise to 14%.		Le Pen at home in St Cloud, Paris 1988