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In October the Bombay High Court reprimanded the customs department for seizing artworks by renowned artists FN Souza and Akbar Padamsee on the grounds that they were "obscene material."

Le Pen ran for the presidency in 1974 for the FN, but won less than 1% of the vote.

After months of bitter legal wrangling, FN party members eventually voted to expel their own founder.

It swept the rug out from under the FN.

The south of France in particular - where large numbers of North African immigrants had come to settle - began to swing behind the FN.