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France has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 58 times since its debut at the very first contest in 1956. France is one of only seven countries to be present at the first contest, and has only been absent from two contests in its history, missing the 1974 and 1982 contests. France has won the contest five times, and along with Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom is one of the "Big Five" who are automatically allowed to participate in the final because they are the five biggest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). France 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. France's fifth victory came in 1977, when Marie Myriam won with the song "L'oiseau et l'enfant". France have also finished second four times, with Paule Desjardins in 1957, Catherine Ferry in 1976, Joëlle Ursull in 1990 and Amina in 1991, who lost out to Sweden's Carola in a tie-break. After reaching the top five in 24 contests in the 20th century, France has had less success in the 21st century, only making the top five twice, with Natasha St-Pier finishing fourth in and Sandrine Francois finishing fifth in . France have failed to reach the top ten in twelve of the last thirteen contests (2003–15), the exception being Patricia Kaas finishing eighth in . In , they finished last for the first time when Twin Twin received only two points, one point from Finland and one point from Sweden. ==Organisation== Several French broadcasters have been used to present Eurovision in the country, formerly RTF (1956–64), ORTF (1965–74) and TF1 (1975–81). Since 1983, France Télévisions has been responsible for France's participation in the contest, with the final being broadcast on France 2 (1983–98) and France 3 (1999–2014), and the semi-final which France votes in broadcast on France 4 (2005–10, 2016) and later France Ô (2011–15). The first semi-final in 2004 was not broadcast. From , France 2 resumed the responsibility of organising an entry and broadcasting the final and from 2016, both semi-finals will be broadcast by France 4. The change is an attempt to secure better ratings and results in forthcoming contests. Radio coverage has been provided, although not every year, by France Inter from 1971 to 1998 and since 2001, France Bleu (also 1976). In 1982, RTL Radio transmitted the contest due to the country's absence that year. France has often changed the selection process used in order to find the country's entry for the contest, either a national final or internal selection (occasionally a combination of both formats) has been held by the broadcaster at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「France in the Eurovision Song Contest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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