Roger Auque

Roger Henri Auque (11 January 1956 – 8 September 2014) was a French journalist, war correspondent, diplomat and Mossad spy. He served as France's Ambassador to Eritrea from 2009 to 2012.

Life and career Auque was born in Roubaix, France, on 11 January 1956. His father was a Gaullist, while his mother (née Baudry) was a French Communist. He revealed in a book published posthumously in 2015 that he had been a Mossad agent.

Family He is survived by his wife, Danette Landry (nee Stanislaw) and is the father of Vladimir Auque, Carla Auque and Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.

His daughter Maréchal-Le Pen was a member of the National Front party. She was born in 1989, to Yann le Penn, daughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, and was raised within Yann's marriage to Samuel Maréchal, a fact only revealed publicly in 2013 in a book by Christine Clerc titled Les Conquérantes. In 2012, Maréchal-Le Pen was elected France's youngest MP ever. Marion Maréchal sued French weekly newsmagazine L'Express for a "serious invasion of her privacy," and won her case in April 2015.