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Plaisir d'amour
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Wikipedia article
"'" (, "Pleasure of love") is a classical French love song written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-gide Martini (17411816); it took its text from a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (17551794), which appears in his novel 'Clestine'.
The song was greatly successful in Martini's version. For example, a young woman, Madame Julie Charles, sang it to the poet Alphonse de Lamartine during his cure at Aix-les-Bains in 1816, and the poet was to recall it 30 years later.Vojislav Mate Jovanovi '"La Guzla" de Prosper Mrime: tude d'histoire romantique' 1910 p. 136 "Les paroles de Florian furent mises en musique par Martini, l'auteur de Plaisir d'Amour; cette traduction obtint un grand succs en France. En 1816, Mm Charles la chantait Lamartine, et le pote du Lac, trente ans plus tard, dclarait dans une page de Raphal qu'il ne pouvait entendre sans pleurer les vers de cette touchante ballade : Quand les moutons sont dans la bergerie, .."
Hector Berlioz arranged it for orchestra (H134) in 1859.[http://www.hberlioz.com/Works/BerliozMLWorks.html Berlioz: Musical and Literary Works] (list of reference editions) Louis van Waefelghem arranged the tune for viola d'amore or viola and piano in the 1880s. It has been arranged and performed in various pop music settings.
Lyrics
Original poem by de Florian
Popular lyrics
The joys of love are but a moment long
The pain of love endures the whole life long
Your eyes kissed mine, I saw the love in them shine
You brought me heaven right then when your eyes kissed mine.
My love loves me, and all thy wonders I see
The rainbow shines in my window, my love loves me
And now he's gone like a dream that fades into dawn
But the words stay locked in my heartstrings, my love loves me
Recordings
*The SeekersThe Seekers All Bound For Morningtown (Their EMI Recordings 1964-1968) [https://open.spotify.com/track/6bT1mdxCz7QbgZCXU3XGgf?si=J6ZwF5zrRLmQoqKT5tVxYQ "Plaisir d'amour"] Opens full album on Spotify, Plaisir d'amour is #10 Last Accessed 2018-09-25
*Rina Ketty in 1939 (with extended lyrics)[http://gauterdo.com/ref/pp/plaisir.d.amour2.html "Plaisir d'amour"], Martini Jean Davon T. Henriotti (alias for Gustave Kahn)
*Joan Baez
*Mary Hopkin in Welsh as "Pleserau Serch"
*Nick Drake
*Gabriel Yacoub on disc 9 'Chansons d'Amore' of the multi-volume 'Anthologie de la chanson franaise' recorded in 19921994
*Judy Collins on her 2000 album 'Classic Folk'
*Paul RobesonPaul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions (19281939)
*Mireille Mathieu on her album ' (1985)[https://secondhandsongs.com/release/83188 Tracklist], 'Les grandes chansons franaises' (retrieved 2018-12-2)
*Nana Mouskouri and Charles Aznavour on the album 'Nana & Friends Rendez-vous' (2012)
*Marianne Faithfull on her debut-album 'Marianne Faithfull' (1965)
*Jacky Terrasson on his 2000 album 'A Paris...'
*Charlotte Church Live in Jerusalem 2001
In popular culture
The melodies for Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love" (1961) and the 20th century Christian hymn "My God Loves Me" are based on "Plaisir d'amour". [http://www.godsongs.net/2013/02/my-god-loves-me.html "My God Loves Me"], godsongs.net[https://www.songfacts.com/facts/elvis-presley/cant-help-falling-in-love "Can't Help Falling in Love"], songfacts.com
Mado Robin's version of the song plays in Djibril Diop Mambty's 1973 film 'Touki Bouki' when Nori and Anta go to visit a rich patron's estate in order to convince him to fund their trip to Paris. It is repeated a few times more throughout the remainder of the film.[https://charlesmatthews.blogspot.com/2016/09/touki-bouki-djibril-diop-mambety-1973.html "'Touki Bouki' (Djibril Diop Mambty, 1973)"] by Charles Matthews, 21 September 2016, charlesmatthews.blogspot.com
The tune is heavily featured as a theme to the 1939 feature film "Love Affair" starring Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, with Dunne also performing the song within her role as a singer Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/y8W8PnZkmm4 Ghostarchive] and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20141104015548/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8W8PnZkmm4 Wayback Machine]:
The song was sung by Montgomery Clift in the 1949 movie 'The Heiress'.
A church choir performs this song for exhausted members of Easy Company in the episode entitled The Breaking Point in HBOs acclaimed miniseries Band of Brothers (miniseries).
References
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