At Marine Le Pen’s modest campaign headquarters in one of the most upmarket streets of Paris – Rue du Faubourg St-Honoré – something is missing, and it’s not just the symbolic Joan of Arc statue or giant papier-mache cockerel that grace the Front National’s permanent offices a few miles away.

Here, not far from the Élysée Pace where Le Pen hopes to reside in four months’ time, posters hanging in the interview room feature the campaign slogan Au nom du peuple (in the name of the people), and the words MARINE Présidente, accompanied by a blue, thorn-free rose. There is no mention of the FN nor, indeed, any sign of the Le Pen name. Gone, too, is the FN’s red-white-and-blue flame logo.