Fact 224: How many times has France won the Eurovision Songs Contest?

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Fact 224: How many times has France won the Eurovision song contest?


France were one of the seven countries who took part in the very first ever Eurovision Song Contest held in Switzerland in 1956.

France have won Eurovision 5 times (1958, 1960, 1962, 1969, 1977) and France have also come second five times and 3rd seven times.
France have only missing two Eurovision Song Contest, the first one they missed was in 1974 because the President of France Georges Pompidou died in the Same week as the Eurovision song contest and in 1982 the reason given (and there were quite a lot,) were money and talent and the downsizing of the France's national broadcasting company.


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