About 5,500 French citizens are registered as living in Russia. Here are some of them voting at the French embassy in the Russian capital.

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It appears #dogsatpollingstations isn't as much of a thing in France as it is in the UK. There's not even an obvious hashtag: #chiensauxurnes perhaps?

Having said that, here are two lovely chiens captured by a photographer in Brittany today.

And here's Emmanuel Macron taking what appears to be a rather aggressive approach to a dog, having just voted in his hometown of Le Touquet this morning (Macron, that is, dogs can't vote).

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Whoever wins will inherit a country with unemployment of about 10% and low growth. So what would they do about the economy?

Macron wants: 

1. Budget savings of €60bn (£51bn; $65bn), so that France sticks to the EU deficit limit of 3% of GDP (total output) 
2. Public investments worth €50bn spread over five years for environmental measures, apprenticeships, digital innovation and public infrastructure
3. To lower corporation tax to 25% from 33.3% 

Le Pen wants to: 

1. Introduce "intelligent protectionism", including favouring French firms in public sector contracts 
2. Abandon the euro and bring back the franc 
3. Free up loans for small businesses by lowering interest charges 

We'll be streaming the BBC's live TV coverage here on this page from about 17:30 GMT (that's 18:30 BST in the UK)

Internationally, BBC World News television will run the special programme “France decides: The Presidential Election 2017” from 17:30-21:30 GMT.

It will also be broadcast domestically on BBC News.

BBC World Service radio will be running a special edition of Newshour from 18:00 - 21:00 GMT.

The top hash tag on Twitter in Paris right now is "#Avoté" ("voted"), with "participation" ("turnout") and "ALLEZ VOTER" ("go vote") close behind. The security alert at the Louvre also gets a mention, as does Tulle, the town where President Hollande cast his vote.

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More from the BBC's Henri Astier at the French embassy in London:

It's not clear if this is because of a lower turn-out, or better planning. 

How's turn out in one of the trendiest districts of Paris?

About nine gigabytes of documents were leaked on a file-sharing website late on Friday by an anonymous user.

Mr Macron's En Marche movement said internal campaign documents, including emails and financial data, had been taken several weeks ago in an "act of massive, co-ordinated hacking".

The leaked trove was said to mix genuine files with fake ones.

The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the impact is unlikely to be significant, as Mr Macron enjoyed a wide lead in opinion polls that were taken before campaigning ended.

The contents of the documents have also not been widely circulated.

They were published just before strict election coverage rules came into effect - which ban coverage that could sway the election until polls close at 20:00 local time (18:00 GMT) on Sunday.

France's election commission has warned it could be a criminal offence to republish the leaked data and politicians and media are forbidden from giving details of, or commenting on, the leak until that time.

François Hollande chose not to stand for re-election after a single term in office which saw his popularity rating plummet. What may the future hold for the outgoing Socialist head of state?  

French voter Isabelle Montanari voted electronically when she turned out in the north-western port city of Brest.   

Image source, Isabelle Montanari

Image source, Isabelle Montanari

Franck Mutin, a male nurse, voted in Dordives, south of Paris, before going off to work. He describes for us here the process of casting a ballot.

Image source, Franck Mutin

Image source, Franck Mutin

Image source, Franck Mutin

The Louvre esplanade, where Macron supporters plan to gather tonight, is open again after that security alert earlier but security remains high in the capital and beyond.     

This is good news for our Henri Astier, looking to cast his vote before coming in to work.

This is quite the change from the first round in April, when there was a significant queue outside the embassy.

Some sad news, as Le Parisien reports, external that an 89-year-old man died just after casting his vote in Draveil, in the southern suburbs of Paris.

The man is believed to have suffered chest pains, and collapsed at about 08:00 local time (06:00 GMT). The polling station had to close for about an hour, Le Parisien said.

Further to our earlier entry, astronaut Thomas Pesquet, tweeting from the International Space Station, has encouraged his fellow French nationals to turn out in force (he himself voted by proxy).

The BBC's Europe editor, in Paris, tweets:

The BBC's Maria Byrne is at the scene: "We have been told it will re-open around 12:00 GMT. Right now press are being kept out but tourists are still being admitted to the Louvre through another entrance. We have been told there was not a specific threat."