Until 1998, the lead editorialist was François Brigneau, who left following the conflict between Jean-Marie Le Pen and Bruno Mégret.
Running a deficit of hundreds of thousands of euros in 2008 and struggling with the FN's financial difficulties after poor results in the 2007 French legislative election, National-Hebdo declared bankruptcy in June 2008.
Several former journalists of National-Hebdo later joined the editorial team of the journal Flash, which also included contributors such as Philippe Randa and Alain Soral.
[6] On the same date, the court convicted Jean-Claude Varanne and contributor François Brigneau for inciting hatred against Jews, fining them 10,000 francs each and ordering them to pay damages to the LICRA and the MRAP.
", published in National-Hebdo on 22 September 1994, the court stated that François Brigneau "sought to incite feelings of indignation towards Jews, depicted as arrogant, ungrateful, intolerant, and insular."