Saturday January 16, on the occasion of the ten years of Marine Le Pen's accession to the head of the FN, Jean-Marie Le Pen had told the Parisian that he intended to drink a glass of champagne.
But the secretive was careful not to say that he intended, at 92, to marry… his wife!
As revealed by L'Obs and the far-right site Boulevard Voltaire, the founder of the FN religiously married his wife Jany, 88, to whom he has been civilly married since 1991, at their home in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts -de-Seine).
A ceremony in the strictest privacy attended by a few rare intimate, like Bruno Gollnisch, but none of the three daughters of the patriarch, who learned of the wedding in the press on Monday, January 18.
A silence that surprises all the more since relations have been rather good for several months.
“I don't know what's going on in his head.
It's curious, ”reacts a family source.
"He does this to get in line with God ... and piss off a few people," slips a close relative of Marine Le Pen, referring to the notoriously complicated relationship between the three Le Pen daughters and their stepmother Jany.
A "gesture of romanticism tinged with spirituality"
In the living room of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the traditionalist priest Philippe Laguérie, who notably baptized one of the children of the polemicist Dieudonné, married the spouses "with the authorization of the bishop of Nanterre", Matthieu Rougé, specifies the entourage of Jean-Marie Le Pen, according to which it is about a "gesture of romanticism tinged with spirituality".
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Jean-Marie Le Pen's first wife, Pierrette Lalanne (Marine Le Pen's mother), being divorced, she had not been able to marry the "Menhir" religiously during their marriage in 1960. For her part, Jany Le Pen had also not been religiously married to her first husband, Jean Garnier.
Both were therefore “celibate” in the eyes of the Church.
The idea of a religious wedding had often been mentioned since 1991. The Le Pen had several times considered getting married in a chapel in Greece, Jany's country of origin, according to a source close to the couple.
