A few weeks prior to the national final, RTF asked 20 record labels to send their best songs.

[2] Only the winning song and the runner-up were announced by jury president Jean Marsac.

[2] The Eurovision Song Contest 1958 took place at AVRO Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands on 12 March 1958.

At the close of the voting he received 27 points, placing first of 10 countries, and giving France their first victory at the contest.

[8] The French jury's voting was supervised by Paul Peyre, RTF director of television programming.