A Lunch With Le Pen
Two generations ago your editor sat down to talk economic liberty with the notorious French rightist.

The death this morning of Jean Marie Le Pen takes us back — to a lunch with the rightist at Paris. It was a memorable meal. We were then writing editorials for the Wall Street Journal, headquartered at Brussels. We were being importuned by a faction of American conservatives to try to find common ground with the French rightist. At the suggestion of the Journal’s editor, Robert Bartley, we invited Le Pen to lunch.
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