Former civil servant and investment banker French President-elect Emmanuel Macron and his fledgling political movement La Republique En Marche (Republic On the Move), are preparing for government after defeating far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in Sunday's presidential runoff vote.
The people have now decided that they don't want her as their president.
The election offered a stark choice between Le Pen's plan to ditch the euro and break up the European Union, and the centrist Emmanuel Macron's pledge to deepen European Union integration. But at her campaign headquarters, she and her supporters chose to define success in a different way. The National Front didn't publish a reaction immediately.
Le Pen's defeat has raised questions about her leadership and she may not run for parliament in her northern fiefdom of Henin-Beaumont, where she narrowly lost in 2012.
"Some will cast blank ballots, others will go fishing, others will vote for Marine Le Pen".
Denys Pouillard, director of the Observatory of Political and Parliamentary Life, is even more optimistic saying the FN could collect as many as 50 seats in the National Assembly.
In 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen's opponents refused to appear on stage with him - for fear of legitimising him as a politician. The hardest part is still to come'. But all this only took her so far in this election.
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Mr Macron, on the other hand, demonstrated a quality that French voters, unlike many Anglo-Saxon ones, have long found essential in their successful candidates: Cool mastery of the critical issues confronting the country.
And her campaign director David Rachline on Monday repeated Le Pen's stated view that the euro was an economic "dead weight".
Now herself a twice-divorced mother of three, she keeps her private life out of the spotlight, appearing rarely as a couple with her partner, FN vice-president Louis Aliot.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen had been seen as a rising star of the nationalist and anti-immigration National Front party.
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Ms Maréchal-Le Pen, however, has insisted she never meant to stay in politics throughout her career, according to Le Parisien. I don't owe her anything.
It may have been a unusual way for a beaten presidential hopeful to spend the night, but this party has long term plans.
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