 It's the end of part one of this stressful campaign, with everyone feeling something new and important is germinating in French politics. The far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen has, it seems, confounded again the plans of President Macron, who'd hoped that despite the rally's triumph in the European elections, in a national poll for an actual French government, it would not have the same attraction for voters. In fact, polls put the RN at around 35% of the vote.