 Others members of the Club de l'horloge, such as Bruno Mégret, later joined the FN after a short time in the RPR.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.One of those parties, the Party of New Forces (PFN, "Parti des forces nouvelles"), was an offshoot of the National Front, formed from a 1973 split headed by and François Brigneau who first organised the "" which subsequently merged into the PFN.