French language pop song (Could be Belgian?)

[slipnslide]

Can anyone tell me the title or singer of a very sweet French-language pop song sung by a young cute-sounding girl singer that has a kind of insistent verbal beat that ends each line with rhyming words like "...oublie," "desole," etc...? I used to hear this a lot in Belgium about eight to ten years ago (mid to late nineties), and loved it, but never caught who it was by. Can anyone help?

[Delicado]

Well have you tried Vanessa Paradis "Joe Le Taxi"?
That reached No.3 in February 1988.

[~max~]

Could be Elsa too?

http://www.paroles.net/chanson/22293.1, for example....

[DungeonJayne]

Leggy, please.

What is "manotenous" ??

Have you been drinking all afternoon? LOL

[slipnslide]

No chaps..... it's not Vanessa Paradis' Joe Le Taxi, and it's certainly not old Plastic Bertrand!

it's got a sort of emphatic rhythm:
(emphasis on the first syllable of each word:)
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and......
DA-da DA-da DA-da DA-a-ah,
DA-da DA-da DA-da DA-a-ah... etc

More suggestions welcome, thanks!

[Eve]

This has the lyrics in but looks like s more recent eurovision song....

http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/7882

[Eve]

Some possibilities here...

http://houbi.com/belpop/nineties.htm

Can't get any lyrics up but she seemed to be around at this time...

http://houbi.com/belpop/albums/ash.htm

[~max~]

Patricia Kaas? http://www.patriciakaas.net/

Could be "mon mec a moi"...Do you have any idea what she looks like? age at the time...etc?

[cariad84]

Could it be Alizee?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alizee

[slipnslide]

OK....
For anyone who might have picked up this strand, I have now discovered what it was - and far from being a young cutie, and recent, it seems to have been recorded some years ago.... The song is "Pink Martini" by Edith Piaf!.
How about that?
Perhaps it was re-released, (or re-recorded?) to coincide with the film "La Vie En Rose" ... but I have no other idea.
Thanks to everyone who considered, or responded.

[slipnslide]

Oh dear me....
I'm wrong!
It's not by Piaf.
It's by the US band called Pink Martini, and it's called "Sympathique" from their debut album released in 1997 - and the title track was apparently a huge hit in France - understandably. And the young singing cutie in question is called China Forbes.
THIS is the answer - and again, thanks to one and all.