The apple has become a symbolic figure in the electoral campaign of the RPR candidate in the presidential election, Jacques Chirac. Proof in pictures with this montage of the candidate who does not miss an opportunity to remember how this fruit is apreciable. François Barouin (spokesman for J. Chirac), is also sedated by this fruit: "it is a product of the soil for a man of ground, and the apple gives the peach. That’s not a bad political message".

Lionel JOSPIN, first secretary of the PS answers a question from Alain Duhamel concerning the divergence between socialists and communists and their participation in the government: "I would not want to make the great gap, Mr Marchais is a muscle tear!"

Return to the atmosphere rue de Marignan (Paris), HQ of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing beaten in the second round of the presidential election by the socialist candidate François Mitterrand. A journalist makes his paper in a sad atmosphere with activists with their faces closed or crying. After a moment of despondency, the supporters of the outgoing president shout "Mitterrand fucked! The Giscardians are in the street", raising their hands (v of victory), then they chant "Giscard! Giscard!...". An official asked that no public demonstrations be held.

Olivier BESANCENOT signs autographs surrounded by young people. He is presenting himself as the next generation of the Liberal left. It is independent of the Socialist Party. Before his speech a banner "Our lives are worth more than their profits" is displayed behind the candidate

Excerpt from the debate between Dominique STRAUSS-KAHN (PS) and Nicolas SARKOZY (RPR). While Nicolas Sarkozy tries to demonstrate that a reduction in social security contributions creates employment based on an INSEE report, Dominique Strauss-Kahn explains that this report is contested by all economists. Nicolas SARKOZY then answers: "Sorry, this is not the university... Thank you, professor!" , STRAUSS-KAHN says, "If you were my student, you wouldn’t have made that mistake!"

1200 children, winners of a contest on volcanology, participated in the pre-opening of Vulcania. They were welcomed by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the Auvergne region.

A large parade was organized in Paris, between the Place de la République and the Nation, against the presence of the National Front in the second round of the presidential election. Comments on images of the procession and testimonies of many demonstrators who explain their presence at this demonstration.

Following the victory of François Mitterrand in the second round of the presidential election, this report returns to the reactions of joy at the headquarters of the Socialist Party in Rue de Solférino. Outside the militants sand the champagne. Later the crowd of activists and supporters present in the street shout "Giscard unemployed!" at the arrival of Lionel JOSPIN. Around 10pm a crowd of sympathizers watched the speech of François Mitterrand broadcast in the street from a video bus: a policeman even sat down to allow the crowd to see better. A micropavement allows to grasp the state of mind of the sympathizers: "the people on our side will finally be in the government, we feel to be finally understood"." A victory for democracy through the triumph of alternation"." it reminds me of 1936"." I am a worker, I am happy, I have been waiting for this moment my whole life" "the right one is fed up" pink in the hand. A militant on the shoulders of another brandishes a poster "Mitterrand". They all sing "Mitterrand President" in chorus. At 4 am, in the rain, the sympathizers await François MITTERRAND who finally arrives and shakes hands.

On May 10, 1981, François Mitterrand’s victory in the presidential election led to popular jubilation throughout France. The same evening in Paris at the Place de la Bastille, the crowds were shaking, when Michel ROCARD arrived accompanied by his wife, Jean-Pierre COT and Paul QUILES. Michel ROCARD on the stage: "This is a very nice victory, it is indisputable". On the Champs Elysées procession of cars, sirens howling or people walking a rose in hand chanting "we won, we won!".

Night of celebration in several cities of France after the announcement of the victory of François Mitterrand: images of the atmosphere in Strasbourg, Bordeaux (crowd cheering, round and farandoles), Grenoble (gathering at the palace of sports), Paris (party at the Bastille).

Shortly after the announcement of the victory of the socialist candidate François Mitterrand in the second round of the presidential election, and at the call of Lionel Jospin to a rally at the Bastille, supporters converged on the square to celebrate the event in music. The storm does not affect the enthusiasm of the participants who even shout "Long live the storm! Long live the rain!" , others are sheltering under improvised tarpaulins, while a young woman reacts to the victory of François Mitterrand: "it’s fantastic... we are going to have a new era... long live France".

The day after François Mitterrand’s victory in the second round of the 1981 presidential election, this report looks back at the reactions in rue de Marignan, the seat of the candidate Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (UDF) where the militants killed by the result express their disappointment and emotion.