DESJARDINS, PAULE - La Belle Amour - 50 Grands Succes (Sealed) (2CD)

Paule Desjardins is a French chanson singer born in Calais. In 1956 she released her first record Sentimental strip-tease. In the same year she took part in the Grand prix de la chanson de Deauville 1956 with the song Toi, cest vrai. Further records with Il est l? and Dalilah followed in 1957 and finally in July 1957 her first charter success La chanson de Lima, which remained in the Top 20 for half a year. She took part in the second Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson on March 3, 1957 in Frankfurt for France and reached second place with her chanson La belle amour. In 1958 followed with ?a ne sert ? rien from the movie Kommissar Maigret stellt eine Falle another hit for Paule Desjardins. With the French version of the Paul Anka hit Diana she had a last bigger success. Two more singles and an album followed, but without much response. From 1956 to 1962 Paule Desjardins released about 10 singles and one album on different labels. At the beginning of the 1960s she ended her career, which was on the rise, out of love and married a factory owner from Millau.