Marine Le Pen, the heir to France's far-right National Front
(FN) party, has long suffered for being her father's daughter.
Jean-Marie Le Pen is France's most notorious right-wing
extremist, an unrepentant Holocaust denier and an alleged
torturer in the Algerian war. His daughter, the future poster
girl of the French far right, was bullied at school and spat at
in the street. When she was eight, the family home was gutted by
a bomb planted by suspected political opponents (the culprits
were never arrested).  Life inside the Le Pen home was no less
fractious. Ms. Le Pen's mother, Pierrette, left the family when
Marine was 14, declaring in a series of interviews that her
husband was laundering campaign funds through Swiss bank
accounts. Pierrette told the media that the three Le Pen girls
were being raised in an environment of "primary anti-Semitism"
in which Adolf Hitler was referred to as Tonton (Uncle) Dolphi.
Later, when Marine was a law student at the Sorbonne, her mother
posed topless for Playboy magazine