French artists in appeal against Le Pen

The authors of the article include Juliette Binoche, Jane Birkin, Guillaume Canet, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mélanie Thierry.

"We can not imagine, at the head of France, a candidate whose program is still xenophobic and backward-looking, a candidate who has entered into an alliance with totalitarian and belligerent powers.

We can not imagine what this terrible sign would mean for Europe and for the world, "they write.

Many in the cultural sector seem to have been disappointed with the elimination of the left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round, but still see Macron as a more desirable alternative than the right-wing populist Le Pen, writes Deadline.