Details of the show

The 2014 French Eurovision final will be aired live on January 26 at 17:00 CET on the Chansons D’Aboard show which will be hosted by former Frech Eurovision representative Natasha St. Piere (France 2001). The 2014 French Eurovision entry and representative will be selected via 50/50 jury televoting deliberation.

French viewers will have the chance to vote for their favourite entry during 4 weeks. The public vote will count for 50% of the final deliberation. Voting will run from 26 January – 23 February. The winner will be revealed on 2 March by Natasha St. Piere on her show.

France debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 and was one of the founding members of the event. The country has won the contest 5 times (1958, 1960, 1962, 1969, 1977), whilst has hosted  the event 3 times (1959 and 1961 in Cannes, 1978 in Paris)

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Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 23 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.