 Mark Frederiksen, a French Algeria activist, created in April 1966 a neo-Nazi group, the FANE ("Fédération d'action nationaliste et européenne", Nationalist and European Federation of Action).However, in 1978, neo-Nazi members of the GNR-FANE broke again with the FN.During the 1980s, the National Front managed to gather, under Jean-Marie Le Pen's leadership, most rival far-right tendencies of France, following a succession of splits and alliances with other, minor parties, during the 1970s.