"The Front National may have had its raison d'être at one time, but I think it never managed to keep up with changes in society": residents and officials in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, react to the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, at a time when the former mining town in the Pas-de-Calais region has become one of the strongholds of the far-right National Rally and the political stronghold of Le Pen's daughter Marine. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES