Mary Fitzgerald: Le Pen hoping 'Breitbart effect' will help capture French voters

Far-right National Front party leader and candidate for the 2017 presidential election, Marine Le Pen, visits a Christmas market in Paris as she continues her quest to win over voters before the people of France vote in April

Mary Fitzgerald

When the votes for the next US president were being counted on election night last month, there was an interesting foreign guest inside Trump Tower in New York.

Ludovic De Danne, international affairs director for France's far-right National Front, mingled with Donald Trump's inner circle as news of his victory trickled in.