On Sunday night the French Left were dancing in the streets, Emmanuel Macron’s camp were weakened but not wiped out and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally failed to wrest power with a parliamentary majority - coming a humiliating third.
This is the media narrative emanating from Sunday’s shock second round of French parliamentary elections, which previous polls had suggested could catapult the anti-immigration, Eurosceptic National Rally into France’s political driving seat.
But look closely and the numbers tell a slightly different story.