France's new president, Emmanuel Macron, has picked Edouard Philippe as prime minister, a clear attempt to bring in talent from the Right of French politics as well as the Left and Centre, reports BBC News.
Everyone picked for the Macron government will have to meet the test of "overcoming the divisions between Right and Left and embracing a progressive project", a spokesman has said.
We do not yet know who will be in the cabinet, but we do know some of the other rising stars in the president's team.
Edouard Philippe:
Like the president, he graduated from the elite ENA college for France's top civil servants.
In 2002 he was actively involved in setting up the [conservative] party led by Bordeaux Mayor Alain Juppé.
For years he was seen as Mr Juppé's right-hand man, but left politics to take up a post in the private sector.
In 2010, he won the race to be mayor of the northern port city of Le Havre.
He backed Mr Juppé's unsuccessful bid to secure the [conservative] presidential nomination last November. Ten years before, he co-wrote a political novel with Gilles Boyer, who went on to run the Juppé campaign.
What has he said? "Who is Macron? For some, impressed by his seductive power and reformist rhetoric, he would be the natural son of [JF] Kennedy and [the late former French prime minister] Mendès France. That seems unlikely. The former had more charisma, the latter more principles. For others, he would be Brutus, Caesar's adoptive son."
Macron's Inner Circle:
Alexis Kohler, 44: The new secretary-general at the Elysée, he has worked closely with Mr Macron for several years and has long acted as his special adviser. Described as the only close colleague Mr Macron really listens to, it was Mr Kohler who announced the choice of Edouard Philippe as prime minister.
Ismaël Emelien, 30: Special adviser to the president, he is a long-time friend seen as one of his closest confidants. Seen as one of the main figures behind the creation of the En Marche movement, he was a former colleague of Mr Macron at the economy ministry.
Patrice Strzoda, 64: In charge of the president's office and a highly experienced civil servant, who acted briefly as chief of staff for the outgoing prime minister.
Sibeth Ndiaye, 37: Born in Senegal, and a mother of three, she ran the press relations side of his presidential campaign and now has the task of doing the same for his presidency.
She only became a naturalised French citizen last year and played a starring role in a behind-the-scenes TV documentary on the Macron campaign.
Philippe Etienne, 61: Chief diplomatic adviser, currently ambassador in Berlin, who will have to pursue the president's agenda of reforming the EU.
Among the other key figures are Richard Ferrand, 54, secretary general of the fledgling party, La République en Marche; Benjamin Griveaux, 39, currently a spokesman but expected to become a minister; Julien Denormandie, 36, is set to become a big part of the Elysée operation.