re: #6 HappyWarrior

Grandpa LePen is a Holocaust denier.

I’ve always kind of known of LePen, I remember he ran for president of France when I was in college, I want to say. But I’ve never known much about him, reading his biography, it reads like a bad take on a Hemmingway character. Orphaned at 14 when his father’s boat was destroyed by a mine (1942). Rejected at 16 for the French Forces of the Interior. So he went to law school where he sold a monarchist magazine (the fuck?). Then joined the Foreign Legion and made it to Indochina just in time for France to get out. And managed a presidential campaign in the 60s based on rehabilitating the collaborationists.