Maybe not everyone's tasse de cafe au lait but the French charts are refreshingly different to the UK
Thomas Dutronc - Comme un manouche sans guitare
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd8YIeeJ9WY
The official video release for the song... it's pretty awful and there are more inspiring versions of the song, the album version is a bit lacking in energy.
Dutronc is a jazz guitarist, very much inspired by the French 'gypsy' jazz nightclub scene of the 1930s, think Django Reinhardt etc. This gives a better idea of his inspirations
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpR_9f4LeAU
Dutronc also wrote (some of?) the music for the animated film 'Les Triplettes de Belleville'... which I'm sure you know, being interested in all things cycling related!