As the results rolled in for the first round of France's parliamentary elections, the leader of France's new left-wing alliance sounded both hopeful and triumphant.Speaking from a trendy bar in northeast Paris serving as his election night headquarters, Jean-Luc Melenchon said the so-called NUPES – or New Ecological and Social Popular Union – alliance he heads had passed its first test in "magnificent fashion.""Everyone should be thanked who made this alliance possibl