Montebourg, an eloquent 54-year-old lawyer, won 17% of the vote on an anti-globalisation platform, far ahead of law-and-order, business-friendly Valls and his 5.6%.
Asked about Trump, who swept to power in the US on an anti-globalisation platform, 40% thought his election win would have an overtly negative impact on the UK.
The shock result of the poll, however, was the leap made by the far-right party Jobbik, which took nearly 17% on an anti-globalisation platform despite winning no seats in 2006.
But nearly one in three French voters cast their first-round ballots for Ms Le Pen and Mr Mélenchon, running on anti-euro and anti-globalisation platforms.
Elsewhere in Europe, Trump's breakthrough was likely to boost candidates running on nationalistic, anti-foreigner, anti-elite and anti-globalisation platforms in several key elections over the next year.
As money flooded in from broadcasting and sponsorship deals, later accelerated by globalisation and the emergence of new media opportunities and platforms, so the potential for malfeasance increased.
Now the company is dealing with platform proliferation, the acceleration of social media, increasingly sophisticated data technology, as well as the globalisation of information and new multimedia competitors.
For the global automotive industry, platforms are the panacea of the 1990s, the perfect way to combine economies of scale, globalisation, multi-branding, and rapid rates of new product introduction.
But "globalisation" equivocates.
'When did globalisation begin?'.
