The man who launched the political career of French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen died in southern France on Wednesday. Pierre Poujade led the French far right in the 1950s, presenting one of the principal opposition forces to the government of Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France, who was Jewish.
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