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Update: As Emmanuel Macron arrived in the courtyard of Paris's Louvre museum to deliver his victory speech to thousands of supporters, the European Union's anthem "Ode to Joy" played in the background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGNQWtXEpw "Tonight, France won," he said to rapturous crowds,

Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, «Centrist» candidate Emmanuel Macron was no sooner announced winner in the first round of the French presidential election at the weekend, and with unseemly haste the political establishment rushed to close ranks against rival

Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, For the French establishment, Sunday’s presidential election came close to a near-death experience. As the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, it was a “damn near-run thing.” Neither candidate of the two major parties that have ruled France since

Despite coming second in the results, trailing Macron by just over 2% in the final vote, there were several places in France where Marine Le Pen didn't manage to get a single vote: 56 places in fact. The map below, courtesy of TheLocal.fr, shows a zoomed out version of the map (so not all 56

With more numbers coming from the French Interior Ministry, as of 11:31 p.m. local time Macron's lead is growing to 23.61% as more city votes are counted, vs Le Pen 22.20%, with 41 Million votes counted, or 85.4% of the total. The gap is likely to expand as the final votes are tallied. Earlier,