National Rally: France's far-right approve name change France's far-right National Front, trying to shake off its reputation for racism that has tinged the party for decades, approves a name change as it seeks new momentum under leader Marine Le Pen. Le Pen says the name change to National Rally "closes a chapter in the history of our national movement which opened a little more than 45 years ago, but it is better to open another one which, I believe, will be no less glorious".IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES