PARIS (Reuters) – Singer France Gall, whose hits – including a Eurovision triumph with Serge Gainsbourg – made her an icon of French pop music, has died aged 70.

Gall died on Sunday after a two-year battle with cancer, French media reported.

The news sparked tributes including from President Emmanuel Macron, who said on his Twitter account that “she leaves behind songs familiar to all French people and the example of a life dedicated to others”.

Gall, whose father wrote songs for French greats Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour, shot to fame as a teenager with the help of legendary singer and songwriter Gainsbourg.

They sang for the hit “Poupée de wax, doll of sound” – usually translated as “Poupée de wax, doll de rag” – which won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg in 1965.

Their relationship soured, however, after another hit, ‘Les Sucettes’ (‘Lollipops’), which embarrassed young Gall as she failed to catch the sexual references in the notoriously provocative Gainsbourg’s lyrics.

Gall relaunched her career in the 1970s with Michel Berger, another influential French songwriter whom she later married and had two children with.

In addition to a string of chart successes in the 1980s, she also performed on stage in the hit French-Canadian musical Starmania.

She stopped her career in the 1990s following the death of Berger and his daughter Pauline.

Gall is the second French 1960s icon to have died in the past two months, following the death of rock singer Johnny Hallyday, nicknamed “the French Elvis”, in early December.

(This version of the story corrects paragraph five to show that Gall won Eurovision representing Luxembourg, not France)