Thanks for the clips of those four European artists, nea; each one, for me, more interesting than the previous. I remember Françoise Hardy, who was sexy enough to break into the competitive/insular British pop charts of the sixties. The artist I liked best, though, was the last; thanks for the recommendation.
Here are a couple of other French artists:-
Rock band Tarmac ocassionally stray into folky territory. This track from their
L´Atelier album has a sinister Tindersticks mood to it:-
Machin´s first album is a little-known gem of prog folk, so although I´ve posted this track before, I´m going to give it another plug:-
Unfortunately, after this album, they seemed content to do a lot of lightweight, tongue-in-cheek generic stuff.
But let´s finish on an optimistic note and while we´re in France, a track from Malincorne´s 1976 album, Almanach :-