A selection from around the web on the French president-elect
● The English-language Lenin's Tomb is of the opinion that "53% of French voters can go ..." (perhaps it is best if you read the rest on his blog.)
● Comments on Libération discuss how the left can revive itself, following its third loss in a presidential campaign in a row.
● The fate of the Parti Socialiste is picked up on the Economist's Certain ideas of Europe blog, where the question is whether it will abandon its Marxist-influenced past and embrace a Social Democratic future.
● But Mr Sarkozy is the direction where most of the attention is pointing, as the man who can make France "adapt to the challenges of globalisation" (Tim Hames, the Times).
● And so to feverish wishlist time. Marty Peretz of the New Republic is eager to see three changes in Sarkozy's France: "the receding of the nanny state ... that France will rejoin the western alliance ... the initial experiment among the western powers in dethroning the cult of multiculturalism."
● Dennis MacShane, former Europe minister, sagely tells the Telegraph: "It's a dream and an error of British policy for centuries to think there is a France that will conform to an Anglo-Saxon vision." His comments could also be applied to strands of a US view of France (see Peretz, above).
● John Nichols in the Nation picks up something interesting in Mr Sarkozy's victory speech, pointing that while he was the most Bush-friendly of the final two candidates he used his first address as president-elect to to criticise US inaction on climate change.
● A French election overlay for Google Earth breaks down the results by département and local authority.
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