Died on January 7, 2025 at the age of 96, Jean-Marie Le Pen should be buried in the family tomb in La Trinité-sur-Mer on Saturday.
Those close to the “Menhir” have not yet formally announced the place and date of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s burial, but according to information from West Francethe funeral of the founder of the National Front should be held on Saturday January 11, 2025. A ceremony would be planned from 2:30 p.m. at the Saint-Joseph church in La Trinité-sur-Mer. A small town in Morbihan of just under 2,000 inhabitants where Jean-Marie Le Pen was born in 1928 and where the Le Pen family still has its habits.
In 2018, at the dawn of his 90th birthday, Jean-Marie Le Pen spoke to Figaro on his relationship to death. He then revealed the place where he thought he would be buried: “I would probably be in the small cemetery of La Trinité-sur-Mer in my family vault,” he declared, before turning to the question of his epitaph: “ I thought of a marble plaque marked Jean-Marie since I would be in the Le Pen grave. There is no need to say my name, just my first name.” Near the Parisianhe confided at the same time: “It’s perhaps a little daring, but there would be a plate where there would simply be Jean-Mariewith my date of birth and date of death.”
In his tribute to Jean-Marie Le Pen published on Tuesday evening, her granddaughter, Marion Maréchal, made another suggestion: “And since we have to choose an epitaph for you, I take these few words from Saint-Paul for you: ‘I fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.'”
The funeral of Jean-Marie Le Pen should, in any case, be held “in the strictest privacy, in the family setting of La Trinité-sur-Mer”, said the former advisor earlier this Tuesday. communication from Marine Le Pen, Arnaud Stéphan, to BFMTVspecifying that in addition to the family of the founder of the National Front, certain residents of the town could also be invited. A ceremony open to the public would, however, also be considered. “It’s no secret that there will be a religious ceremony in Paris”, with a few more guests “depending on the size of the church”, added Arnaud Stéphan.