In April 1593 he founded a second university in the city, Marischal College.

George Keith, the fifth Earl Marischal was a moderniser within the college and supportive of the reforming ideas of Peter Ramus.

Last December, Maréchal Le Pen allegedly visited Aleksey Pushkov, chairman of the Duma s international affairs committee and a reputed Putinist hardliner.

Moreover, Marion Maréchal Le Pen, Le Pen s niece and one of the party s two MPs, is a prominent member of the National Front sponsored France Europe Russia group, which advocates a multipolar or, more accurately, a less American world.