Methodology

The rules this site holds itself to — neutrality, quotation honesty, image honesty, and explicit uncertainty.

1. Living public figure: encyclopedia tone

Marine Le Pen is a living public figure. This site uses a strictly neutral, factual, encyclopedia tone: no endorsement, no attack language, no partisan framing. Adjectives of praise or condemnation appear only inside attributed quotations or clearly labeled characterizations (“her supporters argue…”, “her critics argue…”).

2. Attribution, not adoption

Claims made by supporters or critics are attributed, never adopted as the site’s voice. Analytical terms with contested meaning — notably dédiabolisation — are presented as attributed characterizations from the relevant camp, with the opposing view given alongside. The site does not adjudicate political disputes.

3. Quotation policy

• Quotations are verbatim in the original French, with site-supplied translations.
• Each carries venue and date.
• Only lines verified against a primary source (video, official transcript, or contemporaneous full-text reporting) are presented as her words.
• Crowd slogans are labeled as crowd slogans; press-reported paraphrases are labeled as reported-not-confirmed and never presented as verbatim.

4. Uncertainty policy

• Timeline entries carry labels: [documented] (primary or strong secondary source), [reported] (credible press, single-sourced), [uncertain] (conflicting or thin sourcing — omitted wherever possible).
• Reported-but-unconfirmed material is flagged explicitly, never asserted.
• Facts that could not be verified to a reputable source are omitted, and significant omissions are disclosed in the site’s build report (e.g., exact vote totals await confirmation against official Interior Ministry pages).

5. Legal-case reporting policy

Court coverage states only: the charges, the verdict, the sentence, and the procedural/appeal status — as dry fact, with dates. Parties’ characterizations of rulings (e.g., her “political decision” framing) are reported as their characterizations. The site does not predict court outcomes and states the procedural status exactly as of the last verification (September 2026).

6. Image honesty policy

• Real photographs of real people: genuine Wikimedia Commons photographs only, with verified reuse terms, credited in captions and the image credits on this page.
• Never a photorealistic AI-generated image of Marine Le Pen or any real person.
• Generated art is clearly cartoonish caricature, captioned on every appearance: “AI-generated dramatization art — not a historical depiction.”
• No generated image is presented as a historical photograph; no caption implies a generated scene is a real event.

7. Political-neutrality policy

The site takes no position on her policies, her guilt or innocence beyond what courts have decided, or her fitness for office. Policy pages describe the RN’s stated positions with attribution and give critics’ characterizations with equal attribution. The design motif (the “French flame”) is a neutral design element, not a party emblem.

8. Correction and freshness

Procedural facts (especially the court case) change. Each page carries “Source notes” so claims can be re-verified; the legal-case page states its as-of date. Errors reported against the sources on the Sources page will be corrected.

Source notes

• This methodology was set at the site’s creation (September 2026) and governs all 24 routes.
• It mirrors the standards applied across the character-site series, adapted for a living political figure.