Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right movement and father to current leader Marine Le Pen, died Tuesday at the age of 96, Reuters reports. Le Pen had launched the party now known as the National Rally in 1972 but had been excommunicated by his own daughter in 2015 for calling Nazi extermination camps a mere “detail” of World War II. A bit ironic considering in 1944 he had attempted to join a communist wing of the French Free Forces but was rejected for being too young.