Eurovision 2015: France

France
Population 66 616 416
Area: 640 679 km2
Language: French
Eurovision attendances: 57
Eurovision wins: 5 (1958, 1960, 1962, 1969, 1977)

Lisa Angell - N'oubliez pas

The blurb about this song that it is "a great and beautiful chanson that evokes the First World War and at heart all wars". Don’t tell the French, but the drums make it sound more like a Napoleonic theme than a 20th century war song

The song is nice and well sung and all that but it needs a gimmick to win Eurovision and anything gimmicky would make the performance tasteless. It has… nothing really

The book makers already have this in the bottom half of the odds, which is bad because this is one of 6 songs that is already in the final. The only one of the 6 songs lower than this song in the offs is the German entry, who coincidently are the least likely to give this song votes…

France had happier times than this song. The last happy time was 38 years ago when they last won Eurovision.