She knew — as her father, the party patriarch Jean-Marie Le Pen, always refused to acknowledge —<br />that she would always be a minority candidate as long as she reminded the French of perhaps the greatest stain in their history, the four years of far-right rule during World War II.<br />The far-right French presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, thanked her supporters<br />and congratulated her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, after pollsters projected that he would be the next president.<br />Detailed maps of the French presidential election show how Emmanuel Macron decisively beat right-wing nationalist Marine Le Pen.<br />He trounced the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, keeping her well under 40 percent, even as her aides said before the vote<br />that anything below that figure would be considered a failure.<br />Why Macron Won: Luck, Skill and France’s Dark History -<br />By ADAM NOSSITERMAY 7, 2017<br />PARIS — The French presidential runoff transcended national politics.<br />Le Pen, a candidate considered simply unacceptable by a majority of the French.
