The only activists handing out leaflets in the village are those from Jean-Luc Melenchon's Front Gauche, currently tussling with the far-right Front National (FN) leader, Marine Le Pen, for third place in the polls.
One leafleter, Gilbert Moser, 71, a retired local councillor from Paris, explains that Donzy, 200km from the French capital, is a microcosm of Gallic society. "We have a very mixed population and the same range of concerns here as in the rest of the country; unemployment, the cost of living, education, and with a large number of retired people, pensions."
His neighbour, Herve Huet, 65, added: "They're talking of closing the school here and that will mean death to the place. Already young people are moving away and this will be the death knell."
Karl Thill, 79, a retired advertising executive, and his wife Marie-Helene, 62, a former adult-education worker, are leaning towards Melenchon but have not quite made up their minds.
In Donzy, Sarkozy seems more disliked than Hollande is liked, with the political mood more anti-Sarkozy than pro-Hollande. Melenchon and Le Pen both have their camps. Of the six other candidates, including the eternal also-ran Francois Bayrou, there was not a single mention.
If Donzy, the bellwether village, has got it right yet again, it looks like being a bleak second round for Sarkozy.Observer
THE POLLS SAY
First round
* Francois Hollande: 28.4%
* Nicolas Sarkozy: 27%
Second round
* Francois Hollande: 55.5%
* Nicolas Sarkozy: 45.5%
- Sources: Opinionway, BVA, LH2, CSA
- OBSERVER