France's Melenchon takes to the canals in quirky campaign event French far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon boards a barge in a northeast suburb of the French capital for his latest quirky campaign event. Melenchon will float down a canal making five stops along the way to meet and greet supporters. The voyage lasting more than five hours will end up at the Francois Mitterrand Library, a nod to the Socialist leader of the 1980s and early 1990s whom Melenchon references frequently in his stump speech as an icon of the left. IMAGES