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Here’s what you need to know:

• “This is deadly serious now.”

That’s how one of the losing candidates described the results of Sunday’s presidential voting in France, in which Marine Le Pen, the far-right firebrand, advanced to a runoff against the centrist Emmanuel Macron on May 7.

Ms. Le Pen has tried to distance her National Front party from its racist, anti-Semitic roots, but a majority of people surveyed in polls say it represents a threat to democracy. The major parties are uniting against her, our correspondent in Paris writes.

We have detailed maps showing how France voted, in what was a rebuke of mainstream parties. Our journalists across Europe analyzed the results as they came in, and we look at the possible effects on the euro.