cnn's senior european correspondent jim bittermann joins us live from paris. jim? >> reporter: you know how they say you should have been here a day ago. you should have been here an hour and 15 minutes ago. this place was packed with sar k cozy supporters thinking he had a chance to win and he didn't win. he conceded defeat almost immediately when the numbers came from the television networks across the country, the exit polls. here is a little bit of the concession speech he gave to the followers here. >> translator: trance hfrance h republic, a new president, this is a choice. francois hollande is the president of france and must be respected. >> reporter: and while the crowd here is thinning out, one of the things that sarkozy said was that he was going to remain engaged in politics and that was a reference to something that is going to come down the line here in about five weeks' time. 10th of june, first round of the legislative elections here and these people, the folks that were here supporting sarkozy, very narrow defeat for sarkozy, and, in fact, they'll

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she also had a rally today and i asked jim bittermann what her supporters or who her supporters are goingor. >> erin, of course, she is not in the presidential election, but she managed to capture 18% of the vote. the two leading candidates are now going into the runoff, and they would love to have them. but she sort of frustrated them today because she told her followers she personally was going to cast a blank ballot. she's going to the polling place and slip a white piece of paper into the envelope and vote for neither one of them. doing her civic duty, but making it into a protest. we talked to the people at the rally today that follow her and they said they would do the same thing. so even though she told them to vote their conscience, vote which ever way they want, the fact is that probably a lot will follow her example. erin? >> everyone is going to be watching this weekend. the e-block is next. >>> the scream. paint -- the painting could become the most expenive ever sold. tomorrow, art experts expect it to sell for $80 million to $150 million. a heck of a lot of money. it would s