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Plaisir d'amour
French song
"Plaisir d'amour" ([ʁ], "Pleasure of love") is a classical French love song written in by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (–); it took its text from a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (–), which appears in his novel Célestine.
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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 , and the poet was to recall it 30 years later.[1]
Hector Berlioz arranged it for orchestra (H) in [2]Louis van Waefelghemarranged the tune for viola d'amore or viola and piano in the s.[citation needed] It has been arranged and performed in various pop music settings.
Recordings
In popular culture
The tune is heavily featured as a theme to the feature film Love Affair starring Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, with Dunne also performing the song within her role as a singer[14]