Macron took 23.75 percent of the vote, Le Pen 21.53 percent, center-right candidate Francois Fillon got 19.91 percent support, and the independent leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon got 19.64 percent.
French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni have expressed their desire to work together for the benefit of European prosperity, .
Frech elections involve a two-round voting system, narrowing a wider field of presidential candidates down to the top two vote getters.
Centrist Emmanuel Macron, who leads the En Marche movement, won the first round with 24.01% of votes, with a strong performance in metropolitan centres and the west of France.
Never miss a story again - sign up to our Telegram channel and we'll keep you up to speed! A European Commission spokesman tweeted that its president Jean-Claude Juncker had "congratulated" Macron "for his result at the first round and wished him good luck for the rest".
"Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front".
Macron placed first in the first-round of the election, followed by Le Pen, and he is viewed as the favorite.
Runner seizes chance to splash Prince William, Kate Middleton at water station
The video lasting for about seven minutes was published on the official Facebook page of the royal family . They acknowledge that they did not, at the time, sufficiently discuss their suffering among themselves.
Ms Le Pen's statement on Monday denouncing "the old and completely rotten Republican Front" - the coalition of mainstream parties allied against her - sums up her challenge in the May 7 run-off.
"Investors who lost confidence in pollsters after they failed to predict the outcomes of the U.S. elections and Brexit vote are viewing them as credible sources of information again", said Hussein Sayed, chief market strategist at FXTM.
Ms Le Pen has promised to suspend the EU's open-border agreement on France's frontiers and expel foreigners who are on the watch lists of intelligence services.
Those are "two clear offers that come face to face", Macron said on French public television.
Meanwhile, Macron has urged French citizens to not "give into fear", noting that tackling terrorism requires a nuanced approach.
French far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine le Pen waits before a national homage to slain police officer Xavier Jugele, in the courtyard of the Paris Police headquarters, Tuesday, April 25, 2017.
Early projections from opinion pollsters on the results had shown Macron ahead of Le Pen. So far, those candidates have nearly all backed Macron, with one holdout: far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who begrudgingly left the decision to his supporters through his website.
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