... with daughter Le Pen.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

I think the key point isn't that the FN itself is on the rise (it's numbers are not terrific) but that it has resisted assimilation into the UMP-fold.  This says far more about the UMP than it does the FN, which is living to fight another day with the same army whereas UMP put it's eggs in the far-right basket and appears to be coming away empty.