France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
| Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | ||||
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| Participating broadcaster | France Télévisions | |||
| Country |  France | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Internal selection | |||
| Selection date(s) | Artist: 30 January 2025 Song: 15 March 2025 | |||
| Selected artist(s) | Louane | |||
| Selected song | "Maman" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) |
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France will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Maman", written by Anne Peichert and Tristan Salvati, and performed by Peichert herself under her stage name Louane. The French participating broadcaster, France Télévisions, internally selected its entry for the contest.
As a member of the "Big Five", France automatically qualified to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Background
[edit]Prior to the 2025 contest, France Télévisions and its predecessor national broadcasters have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing France sixty-six times since RTF's debut in the inaugural contest.[1] They first won the contest in 1958 with "Dors, mon amour" performed by André Claveau. In the 1960s, they won three times, with "Tom Pillibi" performed by Jacqueline Boyer in 1960, "Un premier amour" performed by Isabelle Aubret in 1962, and "Un jour, un enfant" performed by Frida Boccara, who won in 1969 in a four-way tie with the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Their fifth – and so far latest – victory came in 1977 with "L'oiseau et l'enfant" performed by Marie Myriam. France has also finished second five times, with Paule Desjardins in 1957, Catherine Ferry in 1976, Joëlle Ursull in 1990, Amina in 1991 (who lost out to Sweden's Carola in a tie-break), and Barbara Pravi in 2021. In the 21st century, France has had less success, only making the top ten five times, with Natasha St-Pier finishing fourth in 2001, Sandrine François finishing fifth in 2002, Patricia Kaas finishing eighth in 2009, Amir finishing sixth in 2016, and Pravi finishing second in 2021 with 499 points. In 2024, it finished in fourth place with the song "Mon amour" performed by Slimane.[1]
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, France Télévisions organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country through France 2. The French broadcasters have used both national finals and internal selections to choose their entries in the past. In 2021 and 2022, the broadcaster selected its entries via the national final Eurovision France, c'est vous qui décidez !,[2] a format which was also planned to be held in 2023 but was ultimately cancelled in favour of an internal selection.[3] In August 2024, France Télévisions confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest.[4]
Before Eurovision
[edit]Internal selection
[edit]On 30 January 2025, France Télévisions announced that it had internally selected Louane as the French entrant for the 2025 contest;[5] the announcement came shortly after multiple French outlets confirmed Louane as the selected entrant.[6] Her entry "Maman", written by Louane and Tristan Salvati, was presented to the public on 16 March, during half-time of the final match between France and Scotland in the 2025 Six Nations Championship tournament at the Stade de France.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "France". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ^ "Eurovision France 2022 : rendez-vous le 5 mars !". L'Eurovison au Quotidien (in French). 2022-02-15. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
- ^ "Eurovision France 2023 : c'est vous qui décidez !". En Route Pour l'Eurovision (in French). 2022-07-09. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ Jiandani, Sanjay (2024-08-30). "France: France 2 confirms participation at Eurovision 2025". ESCToday. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ^ Brossault, Juliette (2025-01-30). "Eurovision 2025: Louane annonce être la candidate française cette année" [Eurovision 2025: Louane announces she will be the French candidate this year]. BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ^ Boucher-Rappet, Kevin (2025-01-30). "Eurovision 2025 : la chanteuse Louane représentera la France" [Eurovision 2025: Singer Louane will represent France]. Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ^ Rangin, Magali (2025-03-15). ""Maman": Louane dévoile sa chanson pour l'Eurovision" ["Maman": Louane unveils her song for Eurovision]. BFMTV (in French). Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ^ "Louane premieres France's song for Basel, 'maman'". Eurovision.tv. EBU. 2025-03-16. Retrieved 2025-03-17.