Sceptical, I check, and it is simply not true

In my model, it's not a question of leading the economy but regulating it - but those limits on markets must be set by a respect for people's identities, traditions, lifestyles.'' Jacques Reland, the head of the European program at the Global Policy Institute in London, says Le Pen has managed to wrest the carpet from under both the left and right: ''She has pushed Sarkozy to the right to the point that he has alienated the centre while the left have alienated the workers and are seen as elite representatives of the civil services, the professional classes,'' he says. ''Le Pen does not describe herself as rar right as they are anti-Republic Amazingly, she has claimed the mantle of De Gaulle '' Alain Duhamel, the veteran from Liberation, the paper founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, says Le Pen is ''unfortunately, a very intelligent woman: combative, highly polished on radio and the television, extremely sure of herself and her intuitions and gifted with in an incomparable aplomb. She is, in fact, far more dangerous then her father ever was.'' Le Pen's formal leadership of the National Front may be new but she is no political tyro, despite her protestations that she ''fled politics'' all her life. At 18 she joined the National Front, for a while leading the party's youth wing. She has been a regional councillor in northern France and ran her father's campaign in 2007. Despite her profound Euro-scepticism, she has also been a member of the European Parliament since 2009. At university she trained as a criminal lawyer but in 2006 wrote in her autobiography, A Contre Flots (Against the Current) that her father's choices meant a miserable childhood. In 1976, when she was eight, a 20-kilogram bomb intended for her father blew up the family's apartment building in Paris. Unbelievably, nobody was killed or injured. Less than a decade later the party's office was destroyed in an arson attack. In 1987, when she was just 19, her mother, Pierrette, fell in love with her husband's biographer and ran off with him, sparking a bitter and undignified war over alimony. When Le Pen refused Rosetta Stone French to pay, making a quip about his former wife cleaning houses to earn money, Marine's mother posed for Playboy, not nude but in a skimpy maid's outfit. Le Pen says it was nearly impossible to practise law because nobody wanted anything to do with the poisonous family name. In 1998, by necessity she says, she moved into the ''family business'', taking on the National Front's legal branch. ''Being the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen - and therefore politics - was a very difficult milieu. It brought with it a lot of suffering, a lot of pain. It was for this reason that I avoided it,'' she says. ''But then politics set a trap for me. When you are born in such a milieu, when you grow up with it, you think - and I do believe - that it is a noble art in this world of such individualism. Politics is about caring for others. You cannot look after only yourself but have empathy, for the difficulties and experiences of others,'' she says, without a skerrick of irony. While Le Pen jnr refashions the National Front for a new generation, her anti-immigration stance remains as brutal as her father's. The big difference is that the rhetoric is tempered for a different period in history, a new zeitgeist in which a focus on cultural, not racial, differences is more palatable and intolerance is given gentler expression. So, too, Marine Le Pen's forays into the role of Islam in French society and the erosion of French values: all are favoured refrains but the most stinging criticism of populist, lightning rod issues such as Muslim prayers in the street, the headscarf and women-only days at public swimming pools is folded into the more respectable campaign for a national revival of France's all-important secularist traditions. For all this, she is free and easy with scaremongering statistics. At one point she asks if I was aware that French literacy levels have fallen below those of Tunisia. Sceptical, I check, and it is simply not true. Le Pen is not alone in this push to appeal to a new and wider generation of right-wing voters. Throughout Europe, the far right has gained ground in almost every poll over the past year - as well as in the European Parliament - as voters, confronted with vanishing jobs, burgeoning immigration and stagnant economies, walloped the mainstream parties they decided were responsible.

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