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Kim Willsher in Paris

YOU WONT BELIEVE: What s next for marine le pen - You Need To See This

Marine Le Pen.
Marine Le Pen lost the French presidential election at the second round. Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images

It was third time unlucky for Marine Le Pen, who failed to convince French voters to elect her president on Sunday.

She detoxified her far-right National Rally party and threw out the Holocaust denying, xenophobic thugs – including her own father – softened her image with stories of how much she adores her cats and appeared on television with reassuring smiles and a wardrobe of soothingly neutral coloured clothes.

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