Emmanuel Macron won a resounding victory over National Front far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election Sunday, which puts to rest for now the threat of an exit by France from the European Union. The vote — 66% for centrist Macron to 34% for Le Pen — proved a stronger victory than many analysts and polls had projected. The decisive result favoring Macron turned aside the idea that Le Pen and her party might be gaining enough strength to surprise with an outlier victory, such as occurred with the vote favoring Brexit and the win by President Donald Trump in the United States. However, the election did mark the largest number of votes her party has ever won. Le Pen favored ditching the euro and creating stricter business-protectionist measures and a large reduction in immigration.…