Le temps perdu was the first ever French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, and only in the 1956 edition, one country could enter two songs, and this first song was performed by Mathé Altéry. The song was entered into the 1956 contest with Dany Dauberson with the song Il est là, and the next French representative at the 1957 contest was by Paule Desjardins with La belle amour