France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Eurovision Song Contest 2008
Country	France
National selection
Selection process	Internal selection
Selection date(s)	March 2008
Selected entrant	Sébastien Tellier
Selected song	"Divine"
Finals performance
Final result	19th, 47 points
France in the Eurovision Song Contest

France chose their entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 internally in March 2008, and chose Sébastien Tellier to sing Divine. As one of the 'Big 4' countries, France automatically qualified for the final on May 24, 2008.

At Eurovision

Sébastien Tellier performed 19th following Ukraine and preceding Azerbaijan. They finished 19th with 47 points.

Points awarded by France

Semi-final

12 points	Portugal
10 points	Turkey
8 points	Iceland
7 points	Switzerland
6 points	Bulgaria
5 points	Albania
4 points	Denmark
3 points	Ukraine
2 points	Croatia
1 point	Sweden

Final

12 points	Armenia
10 points	Turkey
8 points	Portugal
7 points	Serbia
6 points	Israel
5 points	Spain
4 points	Romania
3 points	Greece
2 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 point	Russia

Points awarded to France (Final)
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
		Iceland Lithuania		Estonia
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Denmark	Armenia Sweden	Andorra Latvia	Finland United Kingdom	Norway Poland

Commentators

For the 2008 contest the commentators for France were Jean-Paul Gaultier and Julien Lepers.^[1]

References

↑ "Jean-Paul Gaultier to comment Eurovision final". esctoday.com. Retrieved 2008-04-27.

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[1] "Jean-Paul Gaultier to comment Eurovision final". esctoday.com. Retrieved 2008-04-27.