Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidential election, projected results say.
Macron defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen by about 65% to 35% to become, at 39, the country's youngest president, the results show.
Macron will also become the first president from outside the two traditional main parties since the modern republic's foundation in 1958.
He said that a "new chapter of hope and confidence is opening".
Macron's supporters gathered to celebrate in central Paris after the bitterly fought election concluded on Sunday amid massive security.
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The Macron team said that the new president had had a "cordial" telephone conversation with Le Pen.
In a speech she thanked the 11 million people who had voted for her. She said the election had shown a division between "patriots and globalists" and called for the emergence of a new political force.
She said she had wished Mr Macron success in tackling the "huge challenges" facing him.
President François Hollande congratulated Macron and said the result showed the French people wanted to unite around the "values of the republic".