What we can learn from the French election | Letters

Emmanuel Macron celebrates at the Louvre in Paris on Sunday evening.To read your depressing editorial (8 May) and the surprisingly negative piece by your normally brilliant columnist Timothy Garton Ash (This is only a reprieve, 8 May), one would have thought Emmanuel Macron had actually lost the French presidential election instead of winning by a near-record margin.Macron’s 65.5% of the poll (comparable with our EU referendum in 1975) was very much higher than those achieved by De Gaulle,