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Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves after addressing supporters at his Union for a Popular Movement party headquarters after conceding defeat Sunday to Socialist Francois Hollande. (Associated Press)

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"I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again," President-elect Francois Hollande told huge crowds of supporters Sunday in his home area of Tulle in central France, before heading to Paris. "We will succeed." (Associated Press)

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A demonstrator holds up a portrait to make fun of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, now-defeated French President Nicolas Sarkozy (center) and Spanish Employers Organization President Juan Rosell during a May Day protest Tuesday in Pamplona against the Spanish government's tough new labor reforms and cutbacks. (Associated Press)

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Marine Le Pen of the National Front party ran for president on a platform of scrapping the euro currency in France and quashing "Islamization." She received 18 percent of the vote in the first round.

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French Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande (center) arrives April 22, 2012, at Brive Airport in Brive, France, after the first round of the presidential election. (Associated Press)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is running for re-election, and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, leave after casting their votes in the first round of French presidential balloting in Paris on Sunday, April 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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France's President and candidate for re-election in 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy, gestures as he delivers a speech during a campaign meeting in Saint Maurice, outside Paris, Thursday, April 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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Supporters of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is running for re-election, wave French flags during a campaign rally at the Place de la Concorde in Paris on Sunday, April 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Francois Hollande (seen here) has gained popularity for his tax-the-rich proposal in his campaign to unseat French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is struggling to shed his image as "President Bling Bling" in a country with widespread aversion to wealth. (Associated Press)

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U.S. team player John Isner reacts after winning his match against France's Gilles Simon in the quarterfinal of the Davis Cup between France and U.S. in Monaco on Friday, April 6, 2012.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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Relatives react by the coffin of Mohamed Merah during his funeral ceremony near Toulouse, France, on March 29, 2012. Mohamed Merah is blamed for a series of deadly shootings which have shocked France and upended the country's presidential race. (Associated Press)

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Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (partially visible at center) leaves a courthouse March 26, 2012, after being questioned in a probe into a suspected prostitution ring in Lille, France. (Associated Press)

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The exterior of Mohamed Merah's apartment building in Toulouse, France, is seen on March 23, 2012. Mohamed Merah, who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France, died the previous day after being shot in the head by police as he jumped out of his apartment after a fierce gunfight with police, authorities said. (Associated Press)

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Members of the media stand in front of Mohamed Merah's apartment building in Toulouse, France, Friday March 23, 2012. Mohamed Merah, who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died on Thursday after being shot in the head by police as he jumped out of his apartment after a fierce gunfight with police, authorities said. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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** FILE ** French President Nicolas Sarkozy stands by soldiers carrying a coffin during a ceremony in Montauban, southwestern France, on March 21, 2012, to pay homage to the three soldiers killed by a suspect claiming al Qaeda links and also suspected in the killings of three Jewish children and a rabbi. (Associated Press)

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A woman and children are escorted by a police officer near a building where the chief suspect in an al Qaeda-linked killing spree was holed up in an apartment in Toulouse, France, Thursday March 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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This undated and unlocated frame grab provided Wednesday, March 21, 2012, by French TV station France 2 shows Mohammad Merah, the suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 children and a rabbi in recent days in France. (AP Photo/France 2)