In pictures: Marine Le Pen’s political rise and frustrated presidential ambitions

According to France 24, Marine Le Pen's four-decade political career could reach an abrupt end this Tuesday. French courts are set to rule on whether she is guilty of embezzling public funds — a verdict that, if it goes against her, would also bar her from standing in the twenty twenty-seven presidential election. France 24 revisits her rise to prominence, tracing how she pulled the far-right National Rally party from the fringes into the mainstream of French politics, even as the presidency she long sought has remained just out of reach.

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