Eurovision 2025 will be held in Switzerland in the spring. You don’t know, but France has already won something this year.
Eurovision 2025 will be held in Basel, Switzerland, next May. For this 69th edition of the famous European song competition, France will be represented by Louane. The 28 -year -old singer, revealed by the program The Voice And the film La Famille Aries, presented its title with great fanfare during the half-time of the France-Scotland match this Saturday, counting for the VI Nations tournament. An interpretation in front of 80,000 people at the Stade de France and millions of television viewers.
Already considered to be part of the Eurovision favorites, Louane counts on this springboard to install France at the top of the prize list, and why not to the final on May 17. But France has already won a great victory this year and you may not know. Because Louane will not be the only artist to sing in the language of Molière. Exceptional fact, no less than 5 countries have even decided to focus partially or entirely on French -speaking pieces. An unprecedented craze for almost 50 years for French.
As host of Eurovision 2025, Switzerland has logically opted for French, although Basel is in the German -speaking part of the country. It is the young Zoë Më, 24, who will defend the Swiss colors with “Voyage”, a 100% title in French. Luxembourg, back to Eurovision after 31 years of absence, also bet on this language with “the doll rises the sound”, interpreted by Laura Thorn. A nod to the “wax doll, his” doll, his “doll” which had offered victory to France Gall (for Luxembourg!) In 1965.
More surprising and very delightful for France, two other non-French-speaking countries have incorporated French passages into their pieces. A first in the history of Eurovision for the Netherlands, represented by Claude, a young 21-year-old artist born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His song “It’s life” is mainly in French, with only a few verses in English. Finally, the Israeli candidate Yuval Raphael wanted to slip a verse in French in her title “New Day Will Rise”, in tribute to her 3 -year experience lived in Geneva.
This return in force from French to Eurovision is therefore already a great performance, which testifies to the renewed interest in national languages, after years of domination of English. It is indeed necessary to go back to 1978 to find such a presence of French, with 6 songs at the time. A trend that may be confirmed in votes, with a potential victory for one of these French-speaking titles? Response next May in Basel, where Molière’s language will shine in a thousand lights on the European scene.