Les Francofolies () are an annual music festival founded in 1985 in

La Rochelle La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle''; oc, La Rochèla ) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. With ...

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as an initiative of Jean-Louis Foulquier. It is usually held annually in July and aims at promoting

French-language French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...

music. Number of those attending the festival has exceeded 160,000 in 2007. Founder Jean-Louis Foulquier went on to establish Les FrancoFolies de Montréal in 1989. Jean-Louis Foulquier founder of the festival died December 10, 2013 following a long illness.

External links

Official site of Francofolies de la Rochelle
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie Recurring events established in 1985 1985 establishments in France {{France-stub

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