French presidential candidates marked a one day truce Saturday on the eve of voting in a first-round poll to whittle the 10-strong field down to two frontrunners. French election rules outlaw both campaigning and opinion polling on the last day of the race, but Socialist challenger Francois Hollande went into the weekend favourite to oust right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. The two 57-year-old political veterans are expected to win the two spots in the May 6 run-off, and polls suggest that the left-winger will comfortably win the battle to become one of the most powerful leaders in the world. Parisians went about their business without being accosted by pamphleteers, the campaigns' websites, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds were left without updates and broadcasters had to find other subjects to interview. But some hints of the campaigns' moods slipped past the censors. "Lovely day," wrote Socialist Party spokesman Benoit Hamon on his personal Twitter...