The French participating broadcaster, Télévision Française 1 (TF1), selected its entry through a national final.

[1] The final took place on 29 February 1976, hosted by Evelyn Leclercq, Enrico Macias and Demis Roussos.

Again the winner was chosen by public televoting[2] On the night of the final Ferry performed 17th in the running order, following Monaco and preceding Yugoslavia.

France had rarely taken the Eurovision route of uptempo, bouncy and lyrically unchallenging pop songs, but had done so with "Un, deux, trois".

However the United Kingdom scored the stronger in the second half, and ran out the winner with 164 points to France's 147.