France

France made its debut in the first edition of the contest. Their best result to date is the victory in the sixth edition with Alizée and the song "Moi... Lolita".

Contestants

 * XX on Semi-finals denotes auto-qualification. This could be due to the fact that the country was an automatic qualifier or that the edition didn't have semi-finals.
 * XX on Finals denotes an unsuccessful attempt to qualify to the final.