In what has truly been a grand slam of electoral success, French President Emmanuel Macron's party En Marche! has won a commanding majority in parliamentary polls.
With 57% of votes counted, the Interior Ministry said that Mr Macron's party had won 41% of the vote, followed by the conservative Republicans with 23%. With the June 27 start of the new session, the novices within the ranks of Macron's Republic on the Move! party will be learning at high-speed.
Macron's triumph brings a shift in France's political landscape, sweeping aside the mainstream parties that had once alternated in power.
Jean-Claude Cambadélis, the socialist leader, has since announced his retirement, and said the left must "to change everything, its form and its substance, its ideas and its organisation".
All of this really sets the stage for a transformative Macron presidency.
The party of former President Francois Hollande shed more than 250 seats, obtaining just 29 seats.
French President Emmanuel Macron casts his ballot as he votes at a polling station in the second round parliamentary elections.
The FN leader will now have to abandon her seat in the European Parliament, where her party is under several investigations in alleged funding scandals.
The more traditional Conservative and Socialist parties lost several seats and could find it hard to form a competing block against La République en Marche.
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Macron has forged the beginnings of a strong working relationship with the German leader since his election last month, despite significant differences over several issues including stewardship of the euro.
The new parliament, which holds its first session next week, will look very different: 75% of its MPs have not previously occupied a seat in the assembly, their average age has fallen seven years to 48, and a record number - 223, or 38.7% - are women.
Macron's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said: "Through this vote, the French people have showed they preferred hope to anger, optimism to pessimism, and confidence to closing in on oneself".
Last year Denis Baupin resigned as vice-president of the National Assembly after being accused of sexual harassment by fellow politicians, while then finance minister Michel Sapin admitted behaving inappropriately toward a female journalist.
But the abstention rate shows he must go carefully in a country with strong trade unions and a history of street protests that made past governments dilute new legislation.
Many of them are young and new to politics, although they are allied in parliament to another long-established centrist party, MoDem, or Democratic Movement.
The new body will be almost six years younger on average, have a record 224 women lawmakers, and will be strikingly more varied in background if politically less experienced.
Mr Melenchon's hard-left France Unbowed won 17 seats as it also struggled to maintain the momentum it had during the presidential election.
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