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French Song Contest 49

Previous edition: French Song Contest #48
Following edition: West/East

The forty-nine edition of the French Song Contest held  Versailles after the victory of the YouTuber **RakuMugetsu** with the song "VILLAIN" from the videogame *League of Legend*.

30 delegations are present in this edition, and among all the cities, one city makes its debut as "Guest City" :  Mont-Saint-Michel
The fortified island will lose its title automatically qualifier at the end of this season and it will have to pass by the semi-finals.

2 semi-finals of 14 cities will determine the 14 cities who gonna join the host :  Versailles & the guest city :  Mont-Saint-Michel. With the city that won the second chance round, the Grand Final will be composed of 17 delegations.

## Hosts

At the presentation of this edition held in the Château de Versailles, the "*Mister History*" of France Television, **Stéphane Bern**, must be and continue to host the edition.

On his side, the supervisor listen to the choice of the host and choose the new scene female artist & multi-chosen artist in the FSC : **Suzane**.
She going to present the Second Semi-Final and the Final.

## Slogan & logo

Held in  Versailles, the edition will give the footage to the *French royalty*.
The host and the supervisor invite all the participants to come to the Château de Versailles to *Take the Crown* of the victory.

## Semi-Final

**Color key**
     **Qualified for the Grand Final**

     Qualified for The Last Chair

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 14 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final.

Le  Mont-Saint-Michel voted in this semi-final.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 14 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final.

 Versailles voted in this semi-final.

## The Last Chair

The cities that failed to qualify for the final which obtained the 2 highest scores (the two semi-finals combined). Each jury and each televote have to give their 12 pts for the city they want to see in the Grand Final.

**Color key**
     **Qualify in Grand Final**

## Grand Final

#### Predictions for the trophy

  Annecy | Halflives
  Andorre | Siderland ft. Chloe Phillips
 Toulouse | XANDRIA

### Results

**Color key**
     **Winning city**

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Dead last

17 cities fought to win the 49th edition, the 14 qualified cities from the semis-finals, The Last Chair, the Guest City : Le  Mont-Saint-Michel & the host  Versailles.
Metz

## Design

Metz has participated in the French Song Contest since the 2nd edition who's held in Pau. With its arrival, Metz is the second city (with Strasbourg) to represent the Grand-Est region.

## Results

Metz has won the 3rd edition with Alma and the song "La chute est lente", after failed to qualify in the Grand Final of the previous edition. And with this victory in the 3rd edition, Metz signed the best score ever of the winners in the French Song Contest history.

## Fun fact

Metz is also the first city who has won with a song in French language.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

## History

**Nouvelle-Aquitaine** is a French administrative region, created by the territorial reform of 2015 and resulting from the merger of the former regions of Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes.

## List of cities

* Agen
* Angoulême
* Arnac-la-Poste
* Bayonne
* Biarritz
* Bordeaux
* Brive
* Île d'Oléron
* Île Sans Nom
* Limoges
* Pau
* Poitiers
* La Rochelle
* Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Nevers

## Design

**Nevers** make his debut in the French Song Contest at the 35th edition held in  Lille.

Nevers is the prefecture of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France.
It was the principal city of the former province of Nivernais. Also, Nevers is the 4th city from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

## Results

At his second time in the competition, the delegation tool the trophy thanks to the legend of the french chanson,
**Hélène Ségara**.

With the song *"Plus jamais"*, she grab the trophy and give the chance to the city to organized the contest at the 39th edition.
French Song Contest 07

Previous edition: French Song Contest #06

Following edition: French Song Contest #08

The seventh edition of the French Song Contest will be hold in Paris. The edition will work as a special one and the first one to be themed in the history of the contest. Actually all the contestants of this special edition have a common point: they are under 19 years old (from 0 to 18).

Only 20 cities will compete in Paris as far as the theme is reducing a lot the possibilities of finding songs. Paris has been chosen as the host city and the Dom-Tom are automatically in to keep diversity in the contest. The 18 other competing cities will be decided following the Grand Final results of the sixth French Song Contest.

The contest will be separated in two semi-finals of 10 cities, the 5 cities ranked the higher in each of them are qualified in the Grand Final. It’s consequently an amount of 10 cities that will fight for the win.

 Limoges has got her first victory with 136 points thanks to Angie Robba and her song *"Freaking Day"*.

Follow by the winner is the previous edition  Dom-Tom with 104 points.

 Rouen closed the podium with 90 points.

## Rules of this edition

This rules are relevant in this edition only :

* Every artists have to be 18yo or less ! If there's a group, it have to be a member who're kids or teens !
* The artists have to be french, or the song have to in french languages.
* Sytem vote changed ! Every juries and televote have to vote 6 cities and give his 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 & 2 points.
* Troll aren't allowed !
* JESC songs are allowed.
* One (and only one) member of a group may compete a second time if it is solo !
* Songs before 2010 aren't allowed.

## Participants

Only the 20 best cities will take part in this special edition.

These cities are:

* Amiens
* Brest
* Cannes
* Chambéry
* Clermont
* Corse
* Dijon
* Dom-Tom (last winner)
* Grenoble
* Lille
* Limoges
* Lyon
* Marseille
* Metz
* Nantes
* Paris (host city)
* Pau
* Rouen
* Strasbourg
* T. de Belfort.

## Returning artists

 Lenni-Kim

## Semi-Finals

Color key
     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 10 participating cities in this semi-final, 5 will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the ten songs competing in this semi-final, 7 are in English, 2 are in French and 1 with this both languages.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 10 participating cities in this semi-final, 5 will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the ten songs competing in this semi-final, 7 are in English and 3 are in French.

## Grand Final

Color key
     Winning city

     Runner-up

     Third place

     Dead last
Dijon

## Design

**Dijon** has participated in the French Song Contest since the 2nd edition. It's one of the 9 cities who make their debut in Pau for the second edition of the contest. With the Territoire de Belfort, Dijon represent the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and it's the city of this region who've got the most points in the cities rankings by points received (263 for Dijon, 243 for T. de Belfort).

## About the disqualification in the FSC #02

Dijon is also the only city that has been disqualified for an incomplete vote. Indeed, when they arrived in the 2nd edition, the supervisor of the city did not want to give all his points voluntarily, asking for a random assignment, which is formally prohibited and reprehensible disqualification.

## Results

Despite the non-qualification in the 4th edition, when Dijon was in Grand Final the city made honorables perfomances, with notably a 3rd place with Jenifer in the 5th French Song Contest who's held in Brest.

## New artwork

The city didn't the same design. The supervisor of the contest has change the logo of the city in the 5th edition, judging that the previous design was not modern enough.
Paris

## Design

As capital of France, **Paris** has compete logicaly in the French Song Contest since the very first edition.

For the kids edition, Paris has showed his desire to host the country. The supervisor accepted the request for this special edition only. But, even if the city was the host, the capital had competed in semi-final.

## Results

Paris is the only city who never mess an edition actually. The capital got the most last place in Grand Final, but Paris won the 13th edition with the "Blue" sand by **Blue Velvet**.

## Contestants

* Won the "Last Chair" with 96 points.
Territoire de Belfort

## Design

**Territoire de Belfort** is one of the 3 cities which debuted in the third French Song Contest held in the city of Grenoble.

Territoire de Belfort is actually a department in the North-East of France in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The biggest city of the department is simply Belfort. With 50 128 inhabitants in 2011 it is also the third most populated city of the region. In France, Belfort is the 126th most populated city. Territoire de Belfort is among the five smallest departments of France in terms of population.

Territoire de Belfort is the second city from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté taking part in the contest after Dijon which debuted in the second edition of the contest.

Territoire de Belfort is an average city in the contest with one qualification and one non-qualification in two editions.

== Results ==

The best result achieved by the city is a eighth place by Diva Faune & Lea Paci during the third edition in Grenoble. The worst one is a ninth place in semi-final by Kids United in Metz during the fourth French Song Contest. They finished once in a third place in semi-final during the third contest.

## Fun fact

During the 13th edition who's held in Rouen, the french-swiss DJ Mosimann and the singer MARUV has arrived 2nd at the first semi-final with 144 points. At the Grand Final, the duet became the runner-up with exactly the same points than the semi-final, 144 points.
Orléans

## Design

**Orléans** has join the French Song Contest at the 2nd edition host by Pau. Contrary to the south regions, Orléans was the first city to represent the Loire Valley center's region before the arrival of Blois and Bourges in the competition.

## Results

Orléans never won the contest, but the city has compete one time in Grand Final with Jain and his song "Alright". Due to bad results, Orléans has decided to not compete in the 5th edition, as Toulouse and Bordeaux.

## Artworks

Since their first participation in 2018, Orléans has sported 3 different artworks with 3 different font, but the colors of the city still here.
Chambéry

## Design

.Chambéry compete in the French Song Contest since the 3rd edition. Chambéry is part of the 3 cities (with Cannes and the Territoire de Belfort) who join the contest who's held in Grenoble. With Lyon, Clermont and Grenoble, this city represent the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, one of the biggest French region.

## Results

After 9 months of absence, Chambéry marked his return in season 17 with a win in the pocket thanks to DJ Michael Canitrot and the song "Sucker For Your Love".

## Fun fact

At the fourth edition, Chambéry won the first semi-final with the song *"Like Boys"* by the champion of the second edition, **Hyphen Hyphen**. But, at the Grand Final, the city failed to the top 3 and finish at the 10th place "only"
French Song Contest 31

Previous edition: French Song Contest #30
Following edition: French Song Contest #32

The thirty-one edition of the French Song Contest held in
 Besançon after the victory of the canadian duet **Charlotte Cardin/CRi** with the song *"Fous N'importe Où"* *("Crazy Anywhere")* during the last edition.

An among of 25 cities are competing this edition with the debut of  Fribourg-en-Brisgau as guest city.

10 cities make their comeback this edition as the belgium capital  Bruxelles and the winner of the 16th edition,
 Angers. In despite of the withdraws of the previous host  Perpignan or  Haïti notably.

Two semi-finals of 11 & 12 cities occured to determine which 7 cities in each semi-final would join  Besançon the host
and  Fribourg-en-Brisgau the guest city in the final.

 Rouen won the 31th edition with 136 points. That's the second victory for Rouen.

 Casablanca took the silver medal with 123 points.

 Fribourg-en-Brisgau close the Top 3 with 118 points.

## Slogan & logo

Xmas 2020 season will be when the 31th season will start... with wonderful **presents** ! But for one of the cities, there will be a "*trophy underneath the tree".*

## Returning artists

 **Boris Way** | #27

## Semi-Final

Color key
     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 11 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the eleven songs competing in this semi-final 4 are French, 6 are in English & one don't content lyrics.

 Besançon have to vote in this semi-final.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 12 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the twelve songs competing in this semi-final 3 are French, 7 are in English & 3 mixed french and english lyrics.

 Fribourg-en-Brisgau have to vote in this semi-final.

## Grand Final

Color key
     Winning city

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Dead last

16 cities fought to win the 31th French Song Contest, the 14 qualified cities from the semis-finals
& the host  Besançon & the guest city  Fribourg-en-Brisgau
Terre Adélie

## Design

**Terre Adélie** (Adélie Land) is a region of Antarctica discovered in 1840 by the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville. The territory is home to the French scientific base Dumont-d'Urville and aims to raise awareness of global warming by participating in the French Song Contest.

From 2023, Terre Adelie is added to the reform of the Dom-Tom.

## Results

Since his debut in season 19, Terre Adélie know the Top 10 in Grand Final at each participations. Until their victory in season 26 with **Pia Studlé** and *"Ai-je tort ?"*,Terre Adelie's best results was a second place during the 20th edition with **Woodkid** and the song "I Love You".
Brive

## Design

**Brive** make his debut in the French Song Contest at the 33th edition with  Fontainebleau &  Orange.

*Brive-la-Gaillarde*, commonly called simply **Brive**, is a french town, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is the most populous city in the Correze department. The inhabitants of Brive are called the *Brivistes*
French Song Contest 36

Previous edition: French Song Contest #35
Following edition: French Song Contest #37

The thirty-six edition of the French Song Contest is back in Brittany, held to the city of  Saint-Brieuc follow the victory of the rock band **WITHOUT A SIN** and the song *"COLORS"*.

26 cities enter in the competition, among them 3 cities/principality gonna make their beginning in the contest :

* Andorre
* Charleville-Mézières
* St-Tropez.

This 36th season see the withdrawing of cities notably  Corse,  Nevers &  Orange
And the return of previous winner :  Brest,  Mauritius,
 Pau,  Perpignan &  St-Etienne.

Two semi-finals of 12 & 13 cities occured to determine which 7 cities in each semi-final join the host  Saint-Brieuc in the final.

With 162 points,  Bourges won the 36th edition with the finnish song "Ritari" sang by **Ritarit**. This is the second trophy for the city.

 Fontainebleau be the runner-up with 147 points.

 Dijon close the Top 3 and took the 3rd place with 145 points.

## Slogan & logo

To sign the return of French ESC to the helm of the French Song Contest, He chose to come back like a **lion** facing adversity. What better than a *roar* to be heard, but also to wink at the title of Katy Perry (which is also a little "the anthem of his life").

## Returning artists

 **Kinnie Lane** (w/ The Evening)

## Semi-Final

Color key
     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 12 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 13 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final.

## Grand Final

Color key
     Winning city

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Dead last

15 cities fought to win the 36th French Song Contest, the 14 qualified cities from the semis-finals,
the host  Saint-Brieuc.
French Song Contest 57

Previous edition: French Song Contest #56
Following edition: French Song Contest #58

The fifty-seven edition held in  Annecy, after the victory of the singer **Nuit Incolore** with the song *"Dépassé"*.

27 delegations decide to make the travel to the Haute-Savoie for the trophy of the 57th edition.
Among them, we can find  La Réunion &  Wallis et Futuna make their debut as independant territories.

Two semi-finals of 13 cities will determinate the finalists who gonna fight with the host,  Annecy, for the victory, on the Arcadium stage.

## Slogan & logo

*"It's overtaken by the time that Nuit Incolore has opened up to the multiverse... Welcome to a new dimension for this 57th edition."* This is how the supervisor introduce the theme art of the 57th edition.

A way to describe how he was inspired by his own beliefs and the last winning song for the **Multiversal Star** as logo ; and the slogan *: "Exceed The Limits".*

The red and white colors are, no surprise, a tribute about the host city flag and the Savoie... region where the edition takes place.

## Semi-Final

**Color key**
     **Qualified for the Grand Final**

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 13 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 13 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final.

## Grand Final

#### Predictions for the trophy

  Lille | Nina Lili J
  La Réunion | REBECCA
  Saint-Malo | VISIONS OF ATLANTIS

#### Results

**Color key**
     **Winning city**

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Dead last

15 cities fought to win the 57th edition, the 14 qualified cities from the semis-finals and the host  Annecy.
Angers

## Design

**Angers** has participated in the French Song Contest since the 8th edition. Angers is the second city who represent the Pays de la Loire region and have made his arrival in the contest for help Nantes to bring back the Pays de la Loire region higher in the competion. The region never been in the Top 3 since Nantes have been the runner-up of the second edition.

## Results

For his debuts in the contest, Angers has choose Lea Paci, an artist who knows very well the competition because she's already compete at the 3rd and 5th French Song Contest.

She put Angers to the Top 10 of the 8th French Song Contest with the song *"On prend des notes"* and 105 of points.

## Contestants

* Lost the "Last Chair" with 24 points.
Corse

## Design

**Corsica** has particiated in the French Song Contest since its debut. Corse is one of the 16 cities to be present since the first edition. In the contest, Corse is considered as a city because big cities from the Corsican region decided to take part together as « their country is united » and to avoid potential bloc voting between them.

## Results

Corse always qualified but never won the contest. The city reached however the second place in Metz for the fourth French Song Contest which is the best result of the city to date. The song was « Gravity » by Anna Zak, Richard Orlinski & Fat Joe.

## Contestants

* Won the "Last Chair" with 132 points.
Chantilly

## Design

**Chantilly** make is debut in the French Song Contest at the 66th season, held in  Monaco.

Chantily is a commune in the Oise department in the Hauts-de-France region of Northern France. Surrounded by Chantilly Forest, the town of 10,863 inhabitants, the city is must for his emblematic castle, the Château de Chantilly, who's been the home to the Princes of Condé, cousins of the Kings of France between the 17h and the 19th centuries.

## Contestants

 #66 Monaco | Minuit Machine
Centre-Val de Loire

## History

**Centre-Val de Loire** is a French administrative region which brings together three historic provinces: Berry, Orléanais and Touraine.
The region is made up of six departments: Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher and Loiret.

## List of cities

* Blois
* Bourges
* Chambord
* Chartres
* Châteauroux
* Orléans
* Tours
Strasbourg

## Design

**Strasbourg** is one of the 16 cities which took part in the first French Song Contest held in the city of Nantes.

Strasbourg is a city in the North-East of France in the region of Grand Est. With 276 170 inhabitants in 2014 it is also the largest city of the region. In France, Strasbourg is the 7th most populated city.

Strasbourg was the only city from Grand Est taking part in the contest until Metz’ debut during the second edition of the contest. Followed by Reims in the fifth edition.

We could say Strasbourg is one of the strongest cities of the contest since they never missed any final, they always qualified.

## Results

The best result achieved by the city is a fifth place with Jenifer during the second edition in Pau. The worst one is only a eighth place by Lisandro Cuxi in Nantes during the first French Song Contest. They finished once in a third place in semi-final during the second contest.

Strasbourg is, actually, one of the strongest city in terms of received points, placed 1st during few editions in the Top 10 of the most succesful cities of the contest. This first place can be explained by the fact that Strasbourg has never won or host the contest. They therefore have to be in semi-finals in every edition which increases the total of points as they always qualified.

## Contestants

In five editions, Brest has been represented by 2 English song (#03 & #08), 5 French songs (#01, #02 #04, #05 & #06) and one time by song with this both language (#07).
JFSC 03

Slogan : "We Got The Power"

Previous edition: French Song Contest #65
Parallel edition : French Song Contest #66
Following edition: French Song Contest #67

This special edition is, like the second JFSC, a way to celebrate the venue of the Junior Eurovision in France. At the same time than the 66th edition, the 3rd Junior French Song Contest (also call JFSC 03) is launched to Nice (host city of the JESC 2023).
In the idea to break the routine by proposing a different Junior edition. Cities has been cancelled and superheros was welcomed.

Indeed, the theme of Junior Eurovision 2023 was kept for this 3rd JFSC. And to bring this heroic idea to the end, 12 young artists will represent different delegations led by a superhero.

## Rules

* Every artists have to be 18yo or less at the moment of the songs out ! If there's a group, it have to be a member who're kids or teens !
* The artists must come from the country corresponding to the city represented.
* A kid can participate represent more than one city if sing as solo artist AND in a duo or a group.
* JESC songs are allowed, but NOT winning song.

## Grand Final

### Results

12 cities fought to win the 2nd edition of the Junior French Song Contest.

## Marie Myriam Prizes

The Marie Myriam Prizes organised in 2023 by the supervisor and moderators of the French Song Contest honours songs of this contest's semifinal. The prizes are divided in four categories: the Charisma Prize, the Visual Prize, the Musical Prize and the FSC Group Prize.

The winners are revealed shortly after the Grand Final.

 **Visual Prize** | Captain Marvel
 **Musical Prize** | Doctor Strange
French Song Contest 26

Previous edition: North/South
Following edition: French Song Contest #27

The twenty-sixth edition of the French Song Contest held in
 Noirmoutier after the victoiry of **Anastasia Elliot** with the song *"Cigarettes & Gasoline"* during the last edition.

The first edition of the summer 2020 see very special guest city coming in the French Song Contest :  Barcelone. In order to mark the summer season on the French Song Contest, Barcelone will only participate in the competition in July and August.

An amount of 26 cities are competing this edition. With the debut of
 Bourges, the return of  Versailles &  Bruxelles especially.
We also see the withdraw of  Lille.

Two semi-finals of 11 cities occured to determine which 7 cities in each semi-final would join  Montreal, the winner of the 24th season.  Noirmoutier, winner of the spin-off & the summer guest city  Barcelone in the final.

 Terre Adélie won the 26th edition with 130 points.

 Toulon is the runner-up of this edition with 128 points.

 Noirmoutier took the 3rd place with 126 points.

## Slogan & logo

For this first edition of the summer 2020, supervisor decide to be inspired by the heatest season. Sea fons and its **sheels** will be the theme of the 26th edition. With this logo, supervisor invite each participants to *"Take A Dive"* in the deepest ocean to find the winning pearl of this edition.

## Semi-Final

Color key
     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 11 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the 11 songs competing in this semi-final 3 are French, 8 are in English.

 Montreal &  Barcelone will vote in this semi-final.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 11 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the 11 songs competing in this semi-final 5 are French, 5 are in English and 1 with french chorus.

 Noirmoutier &  Barcelone will vote in this semi-final.

## Grand Final

Color key
     Winning city

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Dead last

17 cities fought to win the twenty third French Song Contest, the 14 qualified cities from the semis-finals, the host  Noirmoutier, the winner of the 24th edition  Montreal & the summer guest city  Barcelone.
Agen

## Design

**Agen** compete in the French Song Contest since the 5th edition in Brest. After the withdraw of Toulouse and Bordeaux due to their bad results during their debuts, Agen choose to take part with Pau and Limoges, two others who's from the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region also.

Agen was one of the cities that was subject to televote to join the 3rd season of the contest, with Chambéry, the Territoire de Belfort, Cannes and Poitiers. But it's two seasons later that the city joins the competition, with Reims and Le Havre.

## Fun fact

Avril Lavigne and her song *"Head Above Water"* signed the Agen's best results in 6th French Song Contest but also the worst result with a last place in semi-final of the 10th edition.
Galactic Center

The Galactic Center is the innermost portion of the Milky Way Galaxy which is occupied primarily by the first-rate-states and most notably the first-rate-superstates such as the New Rubarth Empire and the Greater Terran Confederation. The Galactic Centre is surrounded by the Galactic Heartland and surrounds the Supermassive Black-Hole that acts as the gravitational center and heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Galactic Center contains the greatest quanity of high-grade and rare exotics in the galaxy, as well as functions as the power base of most major human powers including the MTA, CFA and Five Scrolls Compact.
Massy

## Design

**Massy** make his debut in French Song Contes during
the 38th edition, held in  Dunkerque.

Massy is city near to Paris, locate in the south of Île-de-France region. Follow  Paris (#01),  Versailles (#12),
  Fontainebleau (#33) and  Montreuil (#35), the "south parisian city" is the 5th city of the region to join the contest.

## Contestants

* \*Won the Last Chair with 84 points.
Heavenly Flower

The **Heavenly Flower** is a flower cultivated by Dr.Jutland it held and incredible amount of mass. Ves Larkingson later consumes the flower while he is on the run.

Ves later says that he thinks the Flower was not supposed to be consumed raw. But at the moment of consumption his body was screaming at him to eat it.

The flower was created on inteligence gained from the Scroll of Water, and the Scroll of Earth.

## Effects:

- Stronger Spirituality

- Making exobest organs become one with the body
Nancy

## Design

**Nancy** make his debut in the French Song Contest at the 35th edition.

Nancy is a riverfront city in the northeastern French region of Grand Est, is known for its late baroque and art nouveau landmarks, some dating to its days as the former capital of the Duchy of Lorraine.

After  Metz,  Mulhouse,  Reims,  Strasbourg &  Troyes, Nancy is the 6th city of the Grand Est region to join the French Song Contest.
Minerva

The Minerva is a masterwork Expert mech piloted by Commander Casella Ingvar-Larkinson of the Living Sentinels. The Minerva is a 3rd order living mech with its own consciousness and personality. It is a command mech which also functions as a ranged mech using a Luminar crystal rifle. The rifle is transformable between a longer range precision version and a shorter rapid firing machine gun for closer range.
Galactic citizenship

Galactic citizenship represented a human’s status in human society. It was divided into 12 tiers, of which the vast majority ranked in the bottom 3 tiers. Every individual who advanced to the rank of Journeyman or expert pilot automatically became a tier 12 galactic citizen. This also contributed a lot to the devaluation of the galactic citizenship system.  In contrast, any average citizen of a first-rate state automatically became a tier 10 galactic citizen at birth.

Galactic citizenship is not necessarily earned. It is a formal recognition of a fact that has already been established. It mostly serves to signal to the wider public that you are a valued human contributor that has become a living treasure to our entire race.
French Song Contest 35

Previous edition: World Edition
Following edition: French Song Contest #36

The thirty-five edition of the French Song Contest held in  Lille after the victory of **Crimson Apple** with the song *"Somebody"* in  Paris during the World Edition.

The previous winning user chose  Lille as city for the 35th edition, By the way, due to his finalist statut, **Lille** became the host city and held the contest for the first time.

Among of the 28 participating cities, 7 will make their debut :

* Arnac-la-Poste
* Luxembourg
* Montreuil
* Nancy
* Nevers
* Nîmes
* Saint-Brieuc

The 35th edition see the return of historic and huge cities like :  Lille *(as host)*,  Marseille or  Orléans
&  Reims especially

2 semi-finals of 13 & 14 cities occured to determine which 7 cities in each semi-final & The Last Chair would join the host,

**WITHOUT A SIN** won the 35th edition for  Saint-Brieuc with the song *"COLOR"*.

 Luxembourg.came at the second place with 109 points.

For the Top 3, 3 cities close the podium :  Brest,  Arnac-la-Poste &  Versailles.

## Slogan & logo

This 35th edition will take place during the first days of spring... what better than **cherry blossoms** to approach this new edition. And for the return of the FSC to its original configuration, the supervisor will advise you to *"be somebody"* that you wish to be.
All this with a little nod to the Japanese version of the FSC which is currently taking its marks with the very first season currently taking place.

## Semi-Final

Color key
     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Qualified for The Last Chair

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 13 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final & 1 for The Last Chair.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 14 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final & 1 for The Last Chair.

## The Last Chair

Juries and televote are joined to determine which city will be the last to have a second chance and be in Grand Final. Each juries and each televote have to give their 12 pts for the city they want to see in the Grand Final.

Color key
     Qualify in Grand Final

## Grand Final

#### Predictions for the trophy

  Nevers | Ogee
  Reims | DONAMARIA
  Saint-Brieuc | WITHOUT A SIN

### Results

Color key
     Winning city

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Dead last

16 cities fought to win the 35th French Song Contest, the 14 qualified cities from the semis-finals, the host  Lille & the Last Chair  Amiens.
French Song Contest 24

Previous edition: French Song Contest #23

Following edition: North/South

The twenty-fourth edition of the French Song Contest held in  Le Mans despite the victory of  Reims last seaison with the song *"Redmoon"* by **DONAMARIA**.

The scenario is the same as that of season 3, the executive supervisor French ESC decided to avoid that some cities always host the contest to choose Le Mans, runner-up of the previous edition.

But, as the last winner, Reims is automatically qualify in Grand Final, like le Mans as host of the 24th edition.

An amount of 28 cities are competing this edition. The 24th edition see the arrival of swiss music with the french-swiss micronation  Saugeais who make his debut in the FSC.

This edition see the returns of  Amiens,  Brest,  Clermont &  Grenoble after a long break. But also the withdrawing of  Bordeaux,  Corse &  Toulouse especially.

Two semi-finals of 13 cities occured to determine which 7 cities in each semi-final would join the final.

 Montreal won the 24th edition with 139 points.

 Grenoble is the runner-up of this edition with 131 points.

 Clermont took the 3rd place with 129 points.

## Slogan & logo

For the 24th edition, supervisor get inspired byt the winning songs "Redmoon". As we can see, "blood moon" is the thing we can see on the theme art... the logo is easly found : **the moon.**

About the slogan, French ESC wanted to the keep the theme of this edition, but wanted to add something about joy and partys of musical contest. ***"Spirit of the Night"*** is choose to keep celebration about music and diversity. It's also a reference to the San Marinese's entry of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017.

## Semi-Final

Color key
     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 13 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the 13 songs competing in this semi-final 5 are French, 8 are in English.

 Reims will vote in this semi-final.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 13 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the 13 songs competing in this semi-final 10 are French, 3 are in English.

 Le Mans will vote in this semi-final.

## Grand Final

Color key
     Winning city

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Dead last

16 cities fought to win the twenty third French Song Contest, the sixteen qualified cities from the semis-finals, the host  Le Mans & the last winner  Reims
Alexa Streon

The granddaughter of General Axelar Streon. Her conviction is to design a second Ouroboros. For this dream she when and became a graduate from Newcastle University on Earth for 5 years. Her ancient clan was on the rise. Becomes a teaching assistant at Eden for Ves Larkinson about half a decade after being a student.
Project void calamity

Project void Calamity is a project started by the CFA 300 years ago.

the project started because a void breaker (a new race of void animals) managed to break the higher dimensions and tear the void.

Now the CFA wants to find out how the animal did it so they can make a void net, to stop/ destroy incoming ships

Project Void Calamity truly deserved to be kept top secret. The story went that a renowned exobiologist specialized in the study of void beasts discovered a new species which he named void breakers that possessed a peculiar defense mechanism.

As their species name suggested, they possessed the ability to 'break' space. Technically, they somehow broke the relation between the dimensions in a very limited fashion. This basically meant that anyone falling under its field of effect would be torn apart as the matter that made up their bodies would be spread across a very wide distance!

Naturally, the CFA wasn't interested in harnessing the void breakers as blunt objects to whack enemy ships. They already possessed more than enough weapons to inflict mass destruction.

Instead, they became interested in the void breakers because this dimensional decoupling took place in many dimensions at the same time. It wasn't just the material dimensions being affected, but also the higher dimensions that FTL drives depended upon to traverse!

"I get it now. The CFA wants to build a giant higher-dimensional space net!"

It took a lot of energy for a void breaker to 'break' the material dimensions because they were relatively barren in energy. However, the creatures found it much easier to decouple the higher dimensions from each other because they somehow managed to draw upon the energy-rich environments to fuel their own separation from each other!

What this did mean? As long as the researchers of Project Void Calamity managed to decipher the mechanics behind the special ability of the void breakers and replicate them artificially, they could potentially build a series of interdiction machines that essentially blocked many methods of FTL travel!

"The main point of this project is economy of scale." Ves understood from the justifications to embark on this research project. "A typical star system encompasses many light-hours. It's not feasible to block every approach with an interdiction machine if they are too costly to produce."

Yet the void breaker didn't have a particularly special physique and doesn't have a demanding diet in terms of exotics. This meant that it was highly possible to mass produce thousands of interdiction machines without bankrupting a state!

Best of all, not only did these interdiction machines block space, they also served as lethal traps. Any ships that crashed into their field of effect would tear themselves apart like noodles, eliminating every hope of entering the star system alive!

A couple of hundred interdiction machines set up at a predicted FTL emergence zone would definitely be able to annihilate a major fleet without firing a single shot!

"This is a weapon that needs planning and prediction to make the best use of it. How frightening!"
Rebecca Andus

Venerable Rebecca Andus started out as a relatively unassuming mech pilot almost a century ago. Back then, large-scale wars were rare and most soldiers were only able to gain combat experience by going on expeditions at this time she was with the Medallion Guard. No one knew how she did it exactly, but she broke through the ranks at a steady and consistent pace. She took around a decade to advance to expert candidate. She took another decade to undergo apotheosis. After that, her growth rate had slowed down, but her resonance strength grew by at least 1 laveres with each passing year, only slowing down as she began to near the 50's. She's 120 years old and that is definitely on the older side as far as expert pilots are concerned. She has already reached 61.1 laveres Saint Jeremiah Gauge personally guided her in the past several months with out guidance it was expected her resonance strength measured at 57.3 laveres.

Venerable Rebecca Andus in her Shockshell a high-tier expert mech expert hybrid mech resonance strength measured at 57.3 laveres. Venerable Rebecca's domain was clearly biased towards shock, electricity and other related means of debilitation. The Shockshell has a lot of weapons in the wrists are a pair of resonance-empowered positron then in the shoulders mounted gauss cannons small but surprisingly powerful.
French Song Contest 01

Following edition: French Song Contest #02

The first edition of the French Song Contest has been held in Nantes, the home city of the executive supervisor of the contest French ESC. A total of 16 cities has shown their interest in participating in the contest despite two of them aren’t real cities because Corse decided to take part together as « their country is united » and to avoid potential bloc voting between Corsican cities. The other participant non-city is Dom-Tom which have been packed together also to avoid some potential bloc voting between them.

Two semi-finals of 7 and 8 cities occured to determine which 5 cities in each semi-final would join Nantes, the host, in the final.

On the 19th of June 2018, Marina Kaye has been crowned the first winner of the French Song Contest, winning with the song "Freeze You Out" for the city of  Pauwith 163 points.

Follow by  Grenoble at the 2nd place with 147 points.

The host  Nantes came at the 3rd place with 131 points.

## Slogan & logo

For introduced the very first edition, the supervisor to choose to give tribute to French roots by choosing of the theme of royalty.

The slogan was *"Be royals"*, in reference to the royalties roots of France.

To keep this line drive, lily flower was the logo with a modern and futuristic aspect.

## Semi-Finals

Color key
     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 8 participating cities in this semi-final, 5 qualified for the Grand Final: Marseille, Paris, Clermont, Rouen and Grenoble. All of them of course qualified for the first time as it was the first edition of the contest.

Grenoble won this semi-final with an amount of 98 points followed by Paris with 90 points and Rouen closing the Top 3 with 89 points. Among the eight songs, three were in French and five were in English.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 7 participating cities in this semi-final, 5 qualified for the Grand Final: Pau, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Corse and Dom-Tom. All of them of course qualified for the first time as it was the first edition of the contest.

Montpellier won this semi-final with an amount of 168 points followed by Pau with 158 points and Corse closing the Top 3 with 122 points. Among the seven songs, four were in English while two were in French. The Dom-Tom’s song sung in Réunionese creole still remains one of the only participating songs not in English nor French.

## Grand Final

Color key
     Winning city

     Runner-up

     Third place

     Dead last

Eleven cities fought to win the first French Song Contest: the five qualified cities from the first semi-final, the five from the second semi-final and the host Nantes which has been prequalified.

Pau wins the whole with 163 points making a gap of 16 points with the runner-up Grenoble which got 147 points. The host Nantes ended the Top 3 while Dom-Tom finished dead last with only 88 points.
Pioneers

The Pioneers are a political group located on Cloudy curtain that advocate a more progressive stance towards the development of the economy and industry of the planet, they are rivalled by the farming consortiums and their political patsy's who held a majority in government, Calsie Doornbos has ties with them.
French Song Contest 23

Previous edition : French Song Contest #22
Following edition: French Song Contest #24

The twenty-three edition of the French Song Contest is held in  Reims, after the victory of the band **Storm Orchestra** with the song *"The Shining Of My Soul"* in  Marseille.

An amount of 28 cities are consequently competing this edition.  Blois,  Dunkerque,  Le Mans,  Mulhouse,  Troyes &  Vannes will make their debut in the competition.

This edition saw the returns of  Avignon,  Limoges,  Montpellier,  Montreal,  Terre Adélie &  Versailles. But also the withdrawing of cities like  Bruxelles,  Nantes or  Noirmoutier.

Two semi-finals of 13 & 14 cities occured to determine which 7 cities in each semi-final would join the final.

 Reims won the 23rd season at home with 158 points.

 Le Mans came at the second place with 153 points.

 Paris close the podium with 141 points.

## Slogan & logo

Since a few weeks or even a few months, France and the world have been going through a difficult period, the dangerousness and timing of which is random. That's why the next season will focus on positivity and hope !

Directly linked to the winner users name and the song interpreted by Storm Orchestra, the slogan **#HOPES** and sparkles as a logo to symbolize the brilliance of a hope that is intended to be brief and useful.

## Semi-Finals

Color key
     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 13 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the thirteen songs competing in this semi-final 7 are French, 2 are in English, 3 songs share this both languages and 1 introduce Bambara lyrics.

 Dom-Tom and  Lyon arrived both 7th of the semi-final and received both 110 points, the qualification of Dom-Tom was due to the numbers of 12 pts and 10 pts received by the juries.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 14 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 will qualify for the Grand Final. Among the fourteen songs competing in this semi-final 7 are French, 4 are in English and 3 shared this both languages.

## Grand Final

Color key
     Winning city

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Dead last

15 cities fought to win the twenty third French Song Contest, the fourteen qualified cities from the semis-finals and the host  Reims.
Lille

## Design

**Lille** has participated in the French Song Contest since the beginning of the contest.

During 3 editions, Lille was the only one to compete for the Hauts-de-France region. Lille was the city that waited the longest before seeing Amiens make his debut at the 4th edition.

## Results

Actually, Lille has been qualifiy 2 times in Grand Final for 6 participations in the contest. His best results have been made with the song *"Echo*" singing by **Lili Poe**.

## Contestants

* Loose The Last Chair with 72 points.
The Next Flop

**The Next Flop** is a National Selection held since the sixth French Song Contest. This became the first Local Selection with videos of the history of the contest, alongside Destination.... Two cities used it by far: Dom-Tom & Clermont-Ferrand.

The selection brought excellent results to the group of islands: first of all their first win in the contest with Anna Leone that won the first edition for her homeland Guadeloupe ; and a third place in Guadeloupe as host for Shungudzo originally coming from Zimbabwe.

For the first time for the ninth French Song Contest, Clermont-Ferrand used the selection to choose their entry. This edition had no particular topic for songs.

## The Next Flop #01:  Dom-Tom

The topic of the NS is DOM-TOM. Four songs competed in these National Selection, all of them coming from four different DOM-TOM belonging to France.

The recap has been released on the 1st of November and the results given on the day after concluding with the victory of Anna Leone with the song "If You Only" for Guadeloupe which will represent the  Dom-Tom in the sixth French Song Contest.

The contest has been hosted in Mamoudzou,  Mayotte.

### Grand Final

     Qualified to the French Song Contest

## The Next Flop #02:  Dom-Tom

The topic of the NS is French-speaking Africa. 8 songs competed in this National Selection: 7 from French-speaking African countries and one from Dom-Tom.

The contest was held in Papeete, Tahiti as the DOM-TOM representative was Tahitian. The edition is hosted by Vaimalama Chaves, Miss France 2019.

### Grand Final

     DOM-TOM entry for the eighth French Song Contest

## The Next Flop #03:  Clermont

### Grand Final

     Clermont entry for the eighth French Song Contest

## The Next Flop #04:  Nantes

### Grand Final

     Nantes entry for the eighth French Song Contest

## The Next Flop #04:  Agen

The Next Flop comes back after a two-editions break. The theme of the edition is summer songs, so 4 summer songs are fighting. Siou becomes the first returning artist of the selection.

### Grand Final

     Agen entry for the thirteenth French Song Contest

## The Next Flop #05:  Bilbao

Out of nowhere, The Next Flop after being dead for 45 editions. Six songs in Basque fought to win a ticket to represent Bilbao in the 60th contest.

### Grand Final

     Bilbao entry for the sixtieth French Song Contest

## The Next Flop #06: Tirana

The Next Flop carries on for the Europe Edition 02 with six songs to represent Albania.

### Grand Final

     Tirana entry for the sixty-first French Song Contest
Fontainebleau

## Design

**Fontainebleau** make his debut in the French Song Contest at the 33th edition, held in  Bourges.

Citizen from that city are called the *Bellifontains*, Fontainebleau is located at the south-east of Paris.
This is the 3rd city from the Ile-de-France region
(after  Paris in 1st edition &  Versailles in 12th edition).