L'Oiseau Et L'Enfant (English translation: "The Bird And The Child") was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 performed in French by Marie Myriam representing France.
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The song is a ballad with the extended metaphor that the "bird" of the title is the singer's lover, while the "child" is the singer herself. Within this, the song is famous for its dramatic imagery.

The song was succeeded in 1978 as Contest winner by Izhar Cohen performing A-Ba-Ni-Bi for Israel.
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