Macron wins French election run-off

Summary

Emmanuel Macron defeats Marine Le Pen to win French presidency
He won over 66% of the vote
Macron set up his centrist En Marche movement only 13 months ago
He has promised to fight division and promote hope and reconciliation
Marine Le Pen hailed a "historic, massive result" for the far right
Turnout was around 74%, the lowest for a run-off in almost 50 years

Live Reporting

Laurence Peter and Tom Spender

Our teams across France (and elsewhere)published at 12:59 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
We have staff across France gauging the mood - here's a taster of the locations some of the votes are being placed.
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The BBC's Hanan Razek is at this not-too-shabby polling station in the 15th arrondisement of Paris
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And Nuala McGovern is in Bordeaux, where Alain Juppé, the man who lost out in the centre-right Republican party race, is mayor
Meanwhile, our own Henri Astier is on his way to the polling station here in London. Wish him luck - the queues for the first round in late April were long. Very long.
Suspect device at Louvrepublished at 12:55 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
An AP journalist has this on the security scare at the Louvre.
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Lower turnout so farpublished at 12:49 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
The BBC's Karin Giannone is in Paris, where wet weather may be keeping some voters at home.
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How do you vote from space?published at 12:45 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
That's the quandary faced by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who's been on board the International Space Station since November, and isn't due back on Earth until the end of this month.
Image source, Jack Fischer
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Thomas Pesquet aboard the ISS (the photo is taken by fellow ISS resident Jack Fischer)
Even being some 400km (249 miles) hasn't proven to be a problem though.
Before the first round of the presidential election last month, the European space programme's spokesman, Jules Grandsire, told Le Parisien newspaper Pesquet was voting using a proxy.
"He said before leaving that he wanted to do his duty as a citizen, that you can do even from all the way up there."
Pesquet, the unofficial photographer on board the ISS, has been posting plenty of pictures of his homeland in the past few days.
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Louvre evacuatedpublished at 12:42 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
The Louvre esplanade in Paris, where Macron supporters are planning to celebrate this evening if he wins, has been totally evacuated by police over a suspicious device.
We'll bring you more on this as we get it.
What powers does the president have?published at 12:38 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
AFP news agency has prepared this nice explainer detailing the extent of the French president's powers. Some of them may be obvious, some not.
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Macron makes his choicepublished at 12:38 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Here's Macron with his wife Brigitte Trogneux preparing to vote at a polling station in Le Touquet, the Channel resort where they live.
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Le Pen casts her votepublished at 12:37 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Here she is at a polling station in the norther town of Henin-Beaumont, a stronghold of her far-right National Front (FN) party.
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A contest like few otherspublished at 12:31 British Summer Time 7 May 2017
Welcome to our live coverage of France's presidential election, the climax of a ferocious campaign.
We have to wait until 20:00 local time (18:00 GMT) to get a sense of whether Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen has been chosen to lead the eurozone's second-biggest economy for the next five years.
What we do know right now is that a revolution in French politics is under way. Neither candidate represents one of the country's traditional parties of government - their picks got knocked out in the first round on 23 April.
Stay the course with us for updates on the voting, analysis from our correspondents and reaction to the result.