Biography

October 1, 1944 · Castres, Tarn, France

July 18, 2022 · Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France (Natural causes)

Danièle Graule

Was chosen to represent the France at Eurovision Song Contest 1974 (1974) with the song "La Vie a 25 ans" (written by Christine Fontane), but had to withdraw because the French President Georges Pompidou died in the week of the competition.

On the cinema screen, she played the script-girl Liliane in François Truffaut's Day for Night and in the last Antoine Doinel-adventure Love on the Run a short-time-affair of Antoine, Christine's friend Liliane. Truffaut who made her famous with one role in two movies: she is Liliane in Day for Night. The fickle girlfriend of actor Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) recruited as a script trainee who is pinching for the English stuntman. In 1978, this Liliane became the friend of Christine Doinel alias Claude Jade in the final film of the Doinel cyclus. Truffaut used Liliane's flashbacks for Love on the Run. Here Liliane becomes the best friend of Christine (Claude Jade). And later, she has an affair with her husband Antoine, again Jean-Pierre Léaud. Thanks to the installation of new and old scenes, Claude Jade also mounted in the flashbacks of Day for Night, it seems Dani was already part of the Doinel Cycle.

In 1968 Papa vient d'épouser la bonne sold a million copies and was a major hit.

In 1966 she was contracted to Pathé-Marconi and released her first single Garçon manqué.

Her only English language record release to date was "That Old Familiar Feeling", which had the same music as "La Vie à 25 ans" but with English lyrics by British singer-songwriter Lynsey de Paul.