 In the 1960s about one hundred thousand French citizens were repatriated from Algeria following the Algerian War of Independence and settled in the Var department.In 2014, Fréjus Mayor David Rachline became the first Senator for Var elected under the National Front banner; alongside Stéphane Ravier for Bouches-du-Rhône, the two became the first National Front Senators under the Fifth Republic.The department of Var has a surface area of 6,032 km2, and 420 km of coastline, including the offshore islands.