Macron cabinet
Women are half of Frances new ministers
BBC
President Macron has unveiled a gender-balanced cabinet in accordance with an earlier pledge, with 11 of 22 new ministerial posts taken by women, reports BBC.
Sylvie Goulard is defence minister while Olympic fencing champion Laura Flessel is sports minister.
Bruno Le Maire is economy minister, Gerard Collomb is interior minister and Franois Bayrou is justice minister.
Macrons decision to pluck figures from across the political spectrum has set the right into disarray.
Le Maire is a conservative moderate, Collomb is the Socialist mayor of Lyon and Bayrou is a veteran centrist.
Some 170 elected officials from the right were earlier criticised by hundreds of other lawmakers after they signed a statement backing Mr Macron.
One accused Macron of blowing up the political landscape.
Other ministerial appointees include Jean-Yves Le Drian, in charge of defence under President Franois Hollande, who will become foreign minister, and Nicolas Hulot, a well-known environmentalist, who becomes ecology minister.
Image copyright AFP Image caption New Ecology Minister Nicolas Hulot is a well-known and popular environmental activist
Longtime Macron supporter and campaign manager Richard Ferrand is rewarded with the territorial cohesion portfolio.
The announcement was delayed after candidates were background-checked for their tax records and any potential conflicts of interest.
It comes amid consternation among forces of both the left and right at Mr Macrons offer of an outstretched hand to join him in his proclaimed political project of bridging the divide long entrenched in French politics.
After he named Republican Edouard Philippe as prime minister on Monday, more than 170 elected conservatives agreed to sign up to his project, some claiming they were witnessing the transformation of politics.
Image copyright AFP Image caption Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has been accused of opportunism by some on the right
But their move was met by a counter-statement signed by more than 570 conservatives.
Ahead of legislative elections in June, Republican party campaign chief Franois Baroin accused Mr Macron of putting a bomb under politics rather than remodelling it.
Meanwhile the Republicans deputy secretary general, Eric Ciotti, was quoted as calling the pro-Macron initiative a slap rather than an outstretched hand - suggesting supporting Republicans were opportunistically seeking a role in the new government.
