The French singer France Gall died in Paris Sunday after a battle with cancer — she was 70, reports Deutsche Welle.
Her spokeswoman Geneviève Salama announced the death and said the singer had fought the disease "with dignity" in recent years
Gall's international breakthrough came in 1965 (top photo) when she won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Luxembourg with a song by Serge Gainsburg, "Poupée de cire, poupée de son ("Wax Doll, Rag Doll").
The single sold 16,000 copies in France the day after her win, and had sold more than half a million copies within four months.
Her 1987 song, "Ella, elle l'a" (Ella, She Has It), a tribute to jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald written by her husband Michel Berger, also became a number one hit in Germany, where she achieved considerable success in the sixties and early seventies.