It was not so much yes to Emmanuel Macron as no to Marine Le Pen but, ultimately, the French election delivered the result that political moderates across Europe had desperately hoped for.
As France’s president begins a second term, however, the problems facing him are myriad; he must reunite a fractured nation and help sustain the EU as an economic and political force in a world where old certainties no longer exist and the balance of power is shifting. Angelique Chrisafis and Jon Henley report from Paris on a nation that seems united only in anger at its political leaders.
