It was in the church where he was an altar boy that Jean-Marie Le Pen's ceremony was held on Saturday afternoon in La Trinité-sur-Mer (Morbihan). A symbolic place for Breton due to the fact that it is his hometown.
Two years ago, he attended the ceremony of 1 of his very good friends in the same building. In the summertime of 2023, he went there for the last time to marry his granddaughter. Since then, his wellness has not allowed him to return to a popular town with 1,800 inhabitants in Paris, which became his refuge in summer.
“No wonder Masha will be held right here,” says Alexandra, a florist from La Trinité-sur-Mer, shortly before the ceremony. On this different day for January, he presents the latest floral compositions, ordered by deputies or supporters of the deceased. "Jean-Marie Le Pen came here for flowers to put flowers on his parents' grave," he says. He besides ordered them for parties he organized in the area. “These were people like you and me erstwhile they came here,” he says about the founding household of FN.
"He wasn't truly Le Pen erstwhile he came here. It was Jean-Marie – 1 of his erstwhile advisors confides. "It was Jean-Marie, not a political animal," agrees another of his companions in the interior ellipse in "La Trinité". "When we had dinner, he never talked about politics. He could tell extraordinary stories," says the photographer.
A actual Breton, controversial politician had “sea” legs and liked to sail, as those who knew him in the area claim. "He liked to recharge the batteries and breathe Breton air distant from the hustle of Paris," says Frank, a household friend who frequently visited Jean-Marie Le Pena in Carnac, a neighboring village where he besides had his apartments. In 1983, he met a man he describes as “the open book of history”. He besides took his side. "In 2002, he called me to find out if our election posters were torn. If so, it was a good signal.
The Trinitan in his heart is the 1 whose city greets him present at his last resting place. La Trinité-sur-Mer, however, was never an RN election bastion. “We may or may not agree with his views, but we all respected him due to the fact that he came from Trinitsia,” says Stéphane, manager of the city bar. “He came in summertime to drink an aperitif with his friends,” says the owner. Like Alain Souchon, another celebrity in the village, “when he arrived, there were no crowds,” says the shopkeeper in the port who was utilized to handling it with all simplicity.
“ distant from his national fame he enjoyed his home with friends and family, in privacy and discretion. It is in the heart of Trinitarianina that the municipality welcomes him to his last resting place today," Yves Normand, Mayor of La Trinité-sur-Mer, responded in a brief statement, absent from the ceremony service. “He was a critical character but had human qualities,” says Jean-Michel Carpentier, whose home is adjacent to the home of the Le Pen family. We had good neighbourly relations.” Being a Trinitarian for 50 years, he reserves that a erstwhile MEP who died at the age of 96 was not active in the policy: "For 4 or 5 years he held conferences in La Trinité".
It was on this household farm in 1928 that Jean-Marie Le Pen was born. In the summertime he would come there regularly until 2023. A agrarian home with 5 bedrooms and blue shutters, where Jean-Marie Le Pen was born, is located in an alley with a Breton name. “When we were children, it was not very comfortable,” recalls Florent de Kersauson, a regional councillor from Trinidad, Brittany. “I always saw Jean at La Trinité. I feel like erstwhile he came, it was the home of passage. Friends have come to drink."
On the day of the funeral, safety measures are strengthened around this symbolic place, which is inactive haunted. Since then, daughters and grandkids of the grandstand are inactive there for a change on vacation. La Trinité-sur-Mer is simply a household lenno in which, alongside his parents, Jean-Marie Le Pen wanted to be buried, after 96 years of existence. "My life – how long the road is" sang Alain Barrière, another individual beside whom he now rests.
For: ‘Le Figaro’
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