France at the Eurovision Song Contest

Balance sheet

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Broadcasting company

First participation

1956

Number of participations

62 (as of 2019)

Highest ranking

1 ( 1958 , 1960 , 1962 , 1969 , 1977 )

Highest Score

257 ( 2016 )

Lowest Score

1 ( 1966 )

Points average (since first post)

60.75 (as of 2018)

Average points per voting country in the 12-point system

2.75 (as of 2018)

This article looks at the history of France as a participant in the Eurovision Song Contest .

Regularity of participation and successes in competition

André Claveau won France's first victory in 1958

In 2016, Amir was able to achieve the best placement in France in 14 years

France took part in the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. However, apart from the Swiss victory, the remaining placements were never announced. In 1957 the country started very successfully in the competition and took second place. In 1958 the first victory was achieved. André Claveau with Dors mon amour won the competition in Hilversum. In 1959, when France hosted the competition for the first time, Jean Philippe was able to reach 3rd place. In 1960 France won for the second time. Jacqueline Boyer was able to win the entire competition with the evergreen Tom Pillibi , with France placing in the top three of the year for four years in a row. The country was successful again in 1961 when Jean-Paul Mauric took fourth place. In 1962, Isabelle Aubret won the competition, bringing France's third victory in the competition. Up until that point, no country had competed as successfully as France. But the country was able to continue its successes over the next few years.

In 1963 and 1964, the French entries again achieved good results with 5th and 4th place. In 1965 France was able to achieve third place in the competition for the second time. In 1966, however, a short low point followed. Dominique Walter could only reach the third from last place and with only one point France got the lowest number of points in the competition to date. In contrast, the contributions from 1967 and 1968 were again very successful and could each achieve third place. In 1969 France was able to achieve its fourth victory. However, it was a special victory. Finally, apart from France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom also won the competition in 1969. The reason for this was the lack of rules should a country achieve the same number of points. In 1970, when the competition took place in the Netherlands, France was able to achieve a good result with 4th place. From 1971 to 1973, France was then only moderately successful in competition. In 1971 only 10th place out of 18 could be achieved, which was France's worst position since 1966. But even in 1972 there was no improvement in sight. Betty Mars achieved only an average place with 11th out of 18. In 1973 France finished third from bottom for the second time. In 1974 France wanted to participate again despite the rather moderate success and chose Dani with the song La vie à 25 ans . However, shortly before the competition, the French broadcaster withdrew its participation after the death of President Georges Pompidou became known. France failed the competition for the first time. In 1975 France returned to competition and was able to build on old successes from then on.

When he returned in 1975, he finally achieved fourth place, the best result in five years. In 1976, Catherine Ferry reached second place, bringing France's second place in the competition. With 147 points, she got the highest number of points in the competition up to that point in France. In 1977 Marie Myriam won France’s fifth and so far last victory in the competition with her song L'oiseau et l'enfant . But the country was also successful in 1978 and 1979 and was able to achieve third place. In 1980, with 11th place out of 19, for the first time in seven years no placement among the top five was achieved. In 1981, however, a good result was achieved again with third place. It was France's seventh third place in the competition. In 1982 France dropped out of the competition for the second time. There was no real reason for not taking part, as France decided not to take part from the start. In 1983 France returned to the competition.

However, from 1983 France was not as successful as before. In 1983 and 1984, 8th place was achieved, which was still a good place. In 1985, with 10th place, it was only just under the top ten. In 1986 a bad result was achieved with position 17 out of 20. Also in 1987, only an average placement was achieved with 14th place. In 1988, with 10th place, it was again just under the top ten. It was not until 1989 that France was able to build on earlier successes. In 1989 Nathalie Pâque was able to achieve a good ranking again with 8th place. In 1990, second place was achieved, the best result in 13 years. In 1991 the singer Amina was tied for first place with the Swede Carola . Both had the same number of 12-point evaluations, but Amina received 10 points fewer times, so that Sweden then won the competition and France came second. Despite this missed victory, France was able to do well in 1992 and, like in 1983, 1984 and 1989, took eighth place. In 1993 and 1995, France finished fourth again. In 1994, a good result was achieved with 7th place. From 1996 onwards, France was less successful and the placement started to fluctuate a lot.

In 1996 the duo Dan Ar Braz & L'Héritage des Celtes achieved their worst position in nine years with 19th place out of 23rd. In 1997, however, a good result was achieved again with 7th place. 1997 was still a special year for France at the ESC. Finally, the country became part of the “big ones” that were introduced - the  Big Four (Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain), since 2011 the Big Five (with Italy), the largest EBU contributors - and thus always has a guaranteed final place. This measure was introduced to ensure the long-term participation of the large donors (Spain, Great Britain, France and Germany, from 2011 also Italy) and thus the survival of the contest. In 1998 this was of immediate benefit to France. The country was penultimate and thus got its worst place in the competition to date. Without the Big 4 regulation, France would not have been allowed to participate in 1999. In 1999, however, the result of 1996 was only repeated with 19th place. In 2000, a penultimate place followed again, with the result of 1998 also being repeated. It was not until 2001 that the first good result in four years was achieved with fourth place. It was also the first place in the top five since 1995. France was successful again in 2002 and took fifth place. From 2003 to 2008, however, the country was very unsuccessful. Only average results were achieved in 2003 with 18th place and 2004 with 15th place. In 2005 France was penultimate. In 2006 and 2007, the country landed in 22nd place and thus in penultimate place. In 2008, too, only a moderate placement was achieved with 19th place. It wasn't until 2009 that France started to improve again.

In 2009 Patricia Kaas was able to achieve the best result in seven years with 8th place. In 2010 and 2011 average placements were achieved again with 12th and 15th place. From 2012, however, things went downhill again for France. In 2012, the country reached 22nd place in the final, but if televoting had been used alone, France would have ended up in 26th place and finished last with 0 points. The jury, however, put the country in 13th place. In 2013, France was only in the back of the table with 23rd place. In 2014 a new low for France followed at the ESC. Twin Twin achieved last place with only two points, which France achieved for the first time. Also in 2015 only the third last was reached, which made France less and less successful in the competition. France had never before had such a weak phase in the competition as between 2012 and 2015. From 2016, however, the country was able to record its first successes.

Finally, Amir was able to achieve 6th place for France in 2016, the best place for the country in the competition for 14 years. With 257 points, he also got France's new high score in the competition. Satisfactory results were achieved in 2017, 2018 and 2019 with places 12, 13 and 16.

A total of 37 of the 60 entries ended up in the left half of the table. In addition, the country only came last once. With five wins (1958, 1960, 1962, 1969, 1977), four second places (1957, 1976, 1990, 1991) and seven third places (1959, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1978, 1979, 1981) France belongs, despite the rather moderate successes since 2000, among the most successful countries in the competition. With 61 participations it is one of the longest participating countries in the competition. After all, the country only voluntarily suspended in 1974 and 1982.

List of posts

Color legend: - 1st place. - 2nd place. - 3rd place. - Equal points with last place. - Eliminated in the semifinals / in the qualification / in the Eastern European preliminary decision. - no participation / not qualified. - Cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest.      

year	Interpreter	Title Music (M) and Text (T)	language	translation	final		Semi-final / qualification		National preliminary decision
					space	Points	space	Points
1956	Dany Dauberson	Il est là M / T: Simone Vallauris	French	He is there	k. A. / 14	k. A.	Direct participation		internal selection
	Mathé Altéry	Le temps perdu M: André Lodge; T: Rachèle Thoreau	French	The lost time	k. A. / 14	k. A.
1957	Paule Desjardins	La belle amour M: Guy Lafarge; T: Francis Carco	French	The beautiful love	2/10	17th			Sept villes, une chanson
1958	André Claveau	Dors, mon amour M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Delanoë	French	Sleep my darling	1  /10	27			National preliminary decision
1959	Jean Philippe	Oui, oui, oui, oui M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Cour	French	Yes, yes, yes, yes	3/11	15th			National preliminary decision
1960	Jacqueline Boyer	Tom Pillibi M: André Popp; T: Pierre Cour	French	-	1  /13	32			internal selection
1961	Jean-Paul Mauric	Printemps (Avril Carillonne) M: Francis Baxter; T: Guy Favereau	French	Spring (April rings)	4/16	13			National preliminary decision
1962	Isabelle Aubret	Un premier amour M: Claude-Henri Vic; T: Roland Stephane Valade	French	A first love	1  /16	26th			internal selection
1963	Alain Barrière	Elle était si jolie M / T: Alain Barrière, A. Migiani	French	She was so pretty	5/16	25th			internal selection
1964	Rachel	Le chant de Mallory M: André Popp; T: Pierre Cour	French	Mallory's singing	4/16	14th			internal selection
1965	Guy Mardel	N'avoue jamais M: Guy Mardel; T: Françoise Dorin	French	Never confess	3/18	22nd			internal selection
1966	Dominique Walter	Chez nous M: Claude Carrère; T: Jacques Plante	French	With us	16/18	1			internal selection
1967	Noëlle Cordier	Il doit faire beau là-bas M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Delanoë	French	It must be nice there	3/17	20th			internal selection
1968	Isabelle Aubret	La source M: Daniel Faure; T: Henri Dijan, Guy Bonnet	French	The source	3/17	20th			internal selection
1969	Frida Boccara	Un jour, un enfant M: Emile Stern; T: Eddy Marnay	French	One day, one child	1  /16	18th			internal selection
1970	Guy Bonnet	Marie-Blanche M: Guy Bonnet; T: André-Pierre Dousset	French	-	4/12	8th			Musicolor
1971	Serge Lama	Un jardin sur la terre M: Alice Dona; T: Henri Dijan, Jacques Demarny	French	A garden on earth	10/18	82			internal selection
1972	Betty Mars	Comé-comédie M / T: Frédéric Botton	French	Comedy comedy	11/18	81			internal selection
1973	Martine Clémenceau	Sans toi M: Paul Koulak; T: Anne Grégory	French	Without you	15/17	65			National preliminary decision
1974	Dani	La vie à 25 ans M / T: Christine Fontane	French	Life at 25	Participation withdrew national mourning after Pompidou's death				internal selection
1975	Nicole Rieu	Et bonjour à toi, l'artiste M / T: Pierre Delanoë, Jaff Barnel	French	And you, artist, good afternoon	4/19	91	Direct participation		internal selection
1976	Catherine Ferry	Un, deux, trois M: Tony Rallo; T: Jean-Paul Cara	French	One two Three	2/18	147			National preliminary decision
1977	Marie Myriam	L'oiseau et l'enfant M: Jean-Paul Cara; T: Joe Gracy	French	The bird and the child	1  /18	136			National preliminary decision
1978	Joël Prévost	Il y aura toujours des violons M: Gérard Stern; T: Didier Barbelivien	French	There will always be violins	3/20	119			National preliminary decision
1979	Anne-Marie David	Je suis l'enfant-soleil M: Hubert Giraud; T: Eddy Marnay	French	I am the sun child	3/19	106			Concours de la Chanson Française pour l'Eurovision 1979
1980	profile	Hé, hé m'sieurs dames M: Sylvano Sontorio; T: Richard de Bordeaux, Richard Joffo	French	Hey, hey, ladies and gentlemen	11/19	45			National preliminary decision
1981	Jean Gabilou	Humanahum M: Jean-Paul Cara; T: Joe Gracy	French	Land of the people	3/20	125			Concours de la Chanson Française pour l'Eurovision 1981
1982	No participation
1983	Guy Bonnet	Vivre M: Guy Bonnet; T: Fulbert Cant	French	Life	8/20	56	Direct participation		National preliminary decision
1984	Annick Thoumazeau	Autant d'amoureux que d'étoiles M: Vladimir Kosma; T: Charles Level	French	As many lovers as stars	8/19	61			National preliminary decision
1985	Roger Bens	Femme, dans ses rêves also M / T: Didier Pascalis	French	Even in her dreams (she is) a woman	10/19	56			National preliminary decision
1986	Cocktail chic	Européennes M / T: Georges Cost, Michel Costa	French	European women	17/20	13			L'Eurovision 1986
1987	Christine Minier	Les mots d'amour n'ont pas de dimanche M: Gerard Curci; T: Marc Minier	French	The words of love don't know a Sunday	14/22	44			National preliminary decision
1988	Gérard Lenorman	Chanteur de charme M: Gérard Lénorman; T: Gérard Lénorman, Claude Lemesle	French	Potty singers	10/21	64			internal selection
1989	Nathalie Pâque	J'ai volé la vie M: Guy Mattéoni, GG Candy; T: Sylvain Lebel	French	I stole my life	8/22	60			internal selection
1990	Joëlle Ursull	White and Black Blues M: Georges Ougier de Moussac; T: Serge Gainsbourg	French a.	The white and black blues	2/22	132			internal selection
1991	Amina	Le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison M: Wasis Diop; T: Amina	French	The last one to speak is right	2/22	146			internal selection
1992	Potash	Monté la riviè M / T: Potash	Creole , French	Go up the river	8/23	73			internal selection
1993	Patrick Fiori	Mama Corsica M / T: François Valéry	French, Corsican	Mama Corsica	4/25	121			internal selection
1994	Nina Morato	Je suis un vrai garçon M: Bruno Maman; T: Nina Morato	French	I am a real boy	7/25	74	Qualified directly for the final		internal selection
1995	Nathalie Santamaria	Il me donne rendez-vous M: Francois Bernheim; T: Didier Barbelivien	French	He's meeting me	4/23	94			internal selection
1996	Dan Ar Braz & L'Héritage des Celtes	Diwanit bugale M / T: Dan Ar Braz	Breton	Let children be born	19/23	18th	11/29	55	internal selection
1997	Fanny	Sentiments songes M / T: Jean-Paul Dréau	French	Feelings, lies	7/25	95	Qualified directly for the final		internal selection
1998	Marie Line	Où all? M / T: Jean-P. Dary, Marie Line, Moïse Crespy, Micaël Sene	French	Where to go?	24/25	3			internal selection
1999	Nayah	Je veux thunder ma voix M: P. Graczyk, R. Colombies; T: G. Arcens, L. Ruttigliano	French	I want to give my vote	19/23	14th			National preliminary decision
2000	Sofia Mestari	On aura le ciel M / T: Pierre Legay, Benoît Heinrich	French	Heaven will be ours	23/24	5			National preliminary decision
2001	Natasha Saint-Pier	Je n'ai que mon âme M / T: Jill Kapler	French, English	I only have my soul	4/23	142			internal selection
2002	Sandrine François	Il faut du temps M: Patrick Bruel , Marie-Florence Gros; T: Rick Allison, Patrick Bruel	French	It takes time	5/24	104			internal selection
2003	Louisa Baïleche	Monts et merveilles M / T: Hocine Hallaf	French	Bells and whistles	18/26	19th			internal selection
2004	Jonathan Cerrada	À chaque pas M: Ben Robbins, Steve Balsamo; T: Jonathan Cerrada	French, Spanish	With every step	15/24	40			internal selection
2005	Ortal	Chacun pense à soi M: Ortal; T: Saad Tabainet	French	Everyone thinks of themselves	23/24	11			National preliminary decision
2006	Virginie Pouchain	Il était temps M / T: Corneille	French	It was time	22/24	5			National preliminary decision
2007	Les Fatals Picards	L'amour à la française M / T: P. Léger, Y., J. Sauvagnargues, L. Honel, I. Callot	French English	Love in french	22/24	19th			National preliminary decision
2008	Sébastien Tellier	Divine M: S. Tellier; T: S. Tellier, Amandine de La Richardière	English France	Divine	19/25	47			internal selection
2009	Patricia Kaas	Et s'il fallait le faire M / T: Anse Lazio, Fred Blondin	French	And if it had to be	8/25	107			internal selection
2010	Jessy Matador	Allez! Ola! Olé! M / T: Hugues Ducamin, Jacques Ballue	French	Come on! Come on! Olé!	12/25	82			internal selection
2011	Amaury Vassili	Sognu M / T: Daniel Moyne, Quentin Bachelet, Jean-Pierre Marcellesi, Julie Miller	Corsican	dream	15/25	82			internal selection
2012	Anggun	Echo (You and I) M: William Rousseau, Jean-Pierre Pilot; T: William Rousseau, Anggun	French English	Echo (you and me)	22/26	21st			internal selection
2013	Amandine Bourgeois	L'enfer et moi M: David Salkin; T: Boris Bergman	French	Hell and me	23/26	14th			internal selection
2014	Twin twin	Mustache M: Pierre Beyres, Kim N'Guyen; T: Lorent Idir, François Ardouvin	French, English, Spanish	moustache	26/26	2			Les chansons d'abord 2014
2015	Lisa Angell	N'oubliez pas M: Michel Illouz, Robert Goldman; T: Robert Goldman, Laure Izon	French	do not forget	25/27	4th			internal selection
2016	Amir	J'ai cherché M / T: Amir Haddad, Nazim Khaled, Johan Erramia	English France	I was looking for	6/26	257			internal selection
2017	Alma	Requiem M / T: Nazim Khaled	French English	requiem	12/26	135			internal selection
2018	Madame Monsieur	Mercy M / T: Émilie Satt, Jean-Karl Lucas	French	Proper name	13/26	173			Destination Eurovision 2018
2019	Bilal Hassani	Roi M: Bilal Hassani , Madame Monsieur , Medeline; T: Bilal Hassani	French English	king	16/26	105			Destination Eurovision 2019
2020	Tom Leeb	Mon Alliée (The Best in Me) M: Peter Boström, Thomas G: son , John Lundvik ; T: Peter Boström, Thomas G: son , John Lundvik , Tom Leeb , Amir Haddad , Lea Ivanne	French English	My ally (the best in me)	Cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic by the EBU				internal selection
2021							Qualified directly for the final		Un Eurovision France

^a. with English title

National preliminary decisions

Little is known about France's preliminary decisions in the 1950s. A preliminary decision was made between 1959 and 1961 . Between 1962 and 1975 most of the contributions were selected internally, only in 1970 and 1973 a corresponding broadcast took place. From 1967 the preliminary decision finally prevailed, until 1987 one was held every year - only in 1979 the show was never broadcast on television because of a strike, although it took place. From 1988 up to and including 2004 , the respective representative was again mainly determined internally , but classic preliminary decisions were made in 1999 and 2000 , as well as in 2005 and 2007 .

The most complex national selection process took place in 2006 ; it contained, among other things, three different casting shows on three different channels. The title, however, was chosen internally beforehand: the song Nous, c'est vous, written by Corneille . However, as the victorious singer Virginie Pouchain was not satisfied with the song, it was replaced by the final contribution Il était temps .

In 2014 , for the first time since 2007 , a public preliminary decision took place, in which three performers presented their contributions on January 26th and the winner was announced on March 2nd as part of the Les chansons d'abord program .

From 2015 and 2017, the contributions and the performers were selected internally.

In 2018, for the first time in four years, Destination Eurovision 2018 again hosted a national preliminary round.

languages

France is very faithful to its national language in the competition, so far all contributions have been presented at least partially in one national language, although this was not always French: In 1992 the contribution Monté la riviè was partly sung in Creole , the following year Mama Corsica partly in Corsican . In 1996 the whole article Diwanit bugale was presented in Breton . In 2001 the last chorus of Je n'ai que mon âme was sung in English, in 2004 the last lines of the contribution A chaque pas in Spanish . In 2007 Les Fatals Picards presented their song L'amour à la française on "franglais", a colorful mixture of French and English. Except for two lines, the 2008 article was entirely in English. In 2011 the contribution Sognu was sung entirely in Corsican . In 2014, Mustache also contains a few lines in English and Spanish.

Commercial success

In 1960, Jacqueline Boyer's Tom Pillibi was the first winning title of the competition, which was able to place in the charts across Europe. The winning titles from 1958, 1962 and 1969 were not great commercial successes, either nationally or internationally. Marie Myriam's L'oiseau et l'enfant was very successful in France and has now become a kind of folk song. In 2006, a children's song version of the title was published, which also made it into the charts. Among the contributions in recent years, only Natasha St.-Pier had greater success with her contribution, which reached number two in the singles charts in 2001 and stayed in the top 10 for nine weeks.

Hosted competitions

Although France won the competition five times, it only took place three times in France: 1959 and 1961 in Cannes and 1978 in Paris . In 1959 and 1961, Jacqueline Joubert hosted the evening; besides her, Katie Boyle and Petra Mede are the only presenters who appeared several times. In 1978 in Paris, the Eurovision Song Contest was hosted for the first time by a couple, a tradition that has finally been established since 1996.

year	city	venue	Moderation
1959	Cannes	Palais des Festivals	Jacqueline Joubert
1961
1978	Paris	Palais des Congrès	Denise Fabre and Léon Lemon

List of conductors

year	conductor
1956	Franck Pourcel
1957	Paul Durand
1958-1967	Franck Pourcel 1
1968	Alain Goraguer
1969-1972	Franck Pourcel
1973	Jean Claudric
1974	Participation withdrawn
1975	Jean Musy
1976	Tony Rallo
1977	Raymond Donnez
1978	Alain Goraguer 2
1979	Guy Matteoni
1980	Sylvano Santorio
1981	David Sprinfield
1982	No participation
1983/1984	François Rauber
1985	Michel Bernholc
1986/1987	Jean-Claude Petit
1988/1989	Guy Matteoni
1990	Régis Dupré
1991	Jérôme Pillement
1992	Magdi Vasco Noverraz
1993	Christian Cravero
1994	Alain Goraguer
1995	Michel Bernholc
1996	Fiachra Trench
1997	Régis Dupré
1998	Martin Koch 3

¹Also music director in 1951 and 1961

²François Rauber was music director that same year

³ Contrary to common practice, the conductor was not introduced before the song

Scoring

The following countries received the most points from or awarded the most points to France (as of 2018):

Most of the points awarded in the final space country Points 1  United Kingdom 195 2  Israel 193 3  Portugal 188 4th  Spain 175 5  Italy 166

Most of the points awarded space country Points 1  Portugal 250 2  Israel 240 3  United Kingdom 195 4th  Turkey 190 5  Netherlands 178

Most received points space country Points 1  Switzerland 181 2  Belgium 168 3  Norway 167 4th  Netherlands 162 5  Germany 155  Ireland 155

Award of the highest rating

Since the introduction of the “douze points” system in 1975, France has awarded the maximum number of points to 18 different countries, including four to Israel, five to Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom and seven to Turkey. Since 2016, each country has distributed 12 points twice. The first twelve points come from the jury ( “(J)”  in the table below), the second from the televoting of the audience ( “(T)”  in the table below).

Sustaining land
year	country	space
1975	United Kingdom	2
1976	Portugal	12
1977	United Kingdom	2
1978	Belgium	2
1979	Germany	4th
1980	Netherlands	5
1981	Sweden	10
1982	No participation
1983	Luxembourg	1
1984	Belgium	5
1985	Israel	5
1986	Belgium	1
1987	Netherlands	5
1988	Denmark	3
1989	United Kingdom	2
1990	Luxembourg	13
1991	Cyprus	9
1992	Italy	4th
1993	Switzerland	3
1994	Poland	2
1995	United Kingdom	10
1996	Austria	10
1997	United Kingdom	1
1998	Israel	1
1999	Portugal	21st
2000	Turkey	10
2001	Portugal	18th
2002	Spain	7th
2003	Belgium	2
2004	Turkey	4th
2005		13
2006		11
2007		4th
2008	Armenia	4th
2009	Turkey	4th
2010		2
2011	Spain	23
2012	Sweden	1
2013	Denmark	1
2014	Armenia	4th
2015	Belgium	4th
2016	Italy (J)	16
	Armenia (T)	7th
2017	Portugal (J&T)	1
2018	Israel (J&T)	1
2019	Netherlands (J)	1
	Israel (T)	23

various

• The well-known French singer France Gall won in 1965 with Poupée de cire, poupée de son not for France, but for Luxembourg.
• Marie Myriam has often announced the French country points in recent years.
• A symbolic moment in the competition took place in 1991 when Amina, originally from Tunisia and competing for France, received twelve points from Israel . She personally thanked the Israeli representatives.
• In 2012, Anggun's contribution evoked very different reactions from the television audience and juries: while television viewers would have voted the contribution to last place with zero points in a pure televoting, as was common before 2009, Anggun achieved in the ratings of the national juries a thirteenth place and thus even just under the upper half of the table. In the final account of 50% jury and audience votes each, a 22nd place was recorded.

Impressions

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  Guy Mardel 1965

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  Jonathan Cerrada 2004

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  Les Fatals Picards 2007

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  Sébastien Tellier 2008

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  Patricia Kaas 2009

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  Jessy Matador 2010

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  Amaury Vassili 2011

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  Anggun 2012

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  Amandine Bourgeois 2013

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  Twin Twin 2014

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  Lisa Angell 2015

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  Alma 2017

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  Madame Monsieur 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ natfinals.50webs.com
2. ↑ esctoday.com
3. ↑ charts-surfer.de ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Detailed overview: conductors for France. Retrieved September 21, 2018 . 
5. ^ Eurovision 1998 France - Marie Line - Où aller. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .