In La Trinité-sur-Mer, the home of the Le Pen family is hidden in the center of the town. There is no mailbox. No name. You have to go back up rue de la Vigie to find a clue: the name of Yann Maréchal, one of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughters, is written in black on a construction site sign. From the half-open fence, we can see the house, about thirty meters long, with dark blue shutters. It is in this building that Jean-Marie Le Pen was born 96 years ago. And almost 500 km from there that the founder of the National Front died on Tuesday January 7.
“Jean-Marie Le Pen didn’t come here often anymore”
In these streets of the town which are almost deserted in winter, a worker, who comes “once every three years” to take care of the garden of the family home, slips, before closing the fence: “Jean-Marie Le Pen did not come more often here. This house is above all that of his children and the third generation.”
A sixty-year-old, who lives six months a year, in La Trinité confirms. “Today, we mainly see his daughters and his granddaughter, Marion, in town or at the beach. It’s been years since I last saw him. He was an extremely discreet man here. » François, who has lived in the town for 15 years, says he heard that the far-right politician had come twice in recent years, notably for the funeral of Alain Barrière, in 2019.
“The Trinitans did not appreciate his ideas”
Florent de Kersauson, friend of the five-time presidential candidate, saw him for the last time at the wedding of his granddaughter, Mathilde, in 2023. The politician, invested by the National Rally in the last legislative elections, learned of the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen when he had just landed from Martinique, this Tuesday noon. “It’s sad every time we lose a friend. »
The two politicians had kept a link, which went back a long way. On the landing of his parents’ house, Florent de Kersauson brings back memories. ” Jeans
had his house here, his boat… He was a good sailor, there was always something to drink on board. At 20, he was seen as someone exceptional. » He pauses, then continues: “He remained a character for whom the Trinitans had respect, but they did not appreciate his ideas”.
When the child of the country ran for a partial legislative election in the constituency, in 1983, Jean-Marie Le Pen reached 12.2% in the 2nd constituency of Morbihan – a remarkable score for the FN at the time – and 51% in The Trinity. Aimé Kergueris, facing him in the first round, remembers: “I did not agree with his far-right ideas, and the fact that he annihilated what had happened during the war, that , it didn’t work at all. But we always greeted each other properly.”
A funeral in La Trinité-sur-Mer?
Florent de Kersauson explains: “This country, which is a land of centrists, has remained quite resistant to the man and Jean has not had the political impact that he has had elsewhere. Even if, today, the RN is attractive on the other side of the dual carriageway.”
Before rushing into his car, a Trinitain speaks of a “national figure” when referring to the patriarch of the Le Pen clan. “He always said he would be buried here. » According to the parish priest of Carnac-La-Trinité-sur-Mer-Plouharnel, Dominique Le Quernec, the family raised the possibility that the funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen would take place at the church of La Trinité, this Saturday January 11, at 2:30 p.m.
* His first name at birth.
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