PARIS, July 5 -- Marine Le Pen has run for the French presidency three times and lost three times. On Tuesday, a Paris appeals court will decide whether she gets a fourth attempt at all.

The Paris Court of Appeal is scheduled to rule July 7 on Le Pen's challenge to a March 2025 conviction for embezzling European Parliament funds, a case that found she and 24 other National Rally figures had used money meant for EU parliamentary assistants to pay party staff in France between 2004 and 2016. The original sentence carried a four-year prison term, two years suspended, a €100,000 fine, and a five-year ban on holding public office. That ban took effect immediately, under a rarely invoked judicial mechanism called provisional execution, m...