 Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the Front National (FN) party in 1972, along with former Occident member Jacques Bompard, former Collaborationist Roland Gaucher, François Duprat, who introduced the negationist thesis to France, and others nostalgics of Vichy France, Catholic fundamentalists, etc.Le Pen presented himself for the first time in the 1974 presidential election, obtaining 0.74%.The electoral rise of the FN did not start until Jean-Pierre Stirbois's victory, in 1983, in Dreux.