The French went to the polls Sunday to vote in the first round of the country's presidential election. Twelve candidates were on the ballot, but only the top two — Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal — made it through to the final runoff on May 6. Here, brief profiles of the four leading candidates, in order of their standing in pre-election polls:
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