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.[1]
Hector Berlioz arranged it for orchestra (H134) in 1859.[2] 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.
I gave up everything for ungrateful Sylvia,She is leaving me for another lover.The pleasure of love lasts only a moment,The grief of love lasts a lifetime. "As long as this water will run gentlyTowards this brook which borders the meadow,I will love you", Sylvia told me repeatedly.The water still runs, but she has changed. The pleasure of love lasts only a moment,The grief of love lasts a lifetime. |
The joys of love are but a moment longThe pain of love endures the whole life long
Your eyes kissed mine, I saw the love in them shineYou brought me heaven right then when your eyes kissed mine.
My love loves me, and all thy wonders I seeThe rainbow shines in my window, my love loves me
And now he's gone like a dream that fades into dawnBut the words stay locked in my heartstrings, my love loves me
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[12] [13]
The song served as the main theme of, and was sung by Montgomery Clift in, the 1949 movie The Heiress.[14]
The opening sequence of the Christmas comedy film We're No Angels (1955), directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, contains the song "Ma France Bien-Aimée" which borrows the music of Plaisir d'amour.
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".[15] [16]
Mado Robin's version of the song plays in Djibril Diop Mambéty'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.[17]
A church choir performs this song for exhausted members of Easy Company in the episode entitled "The Breaking Point" in HBO's acclaimed miniseries Band of Brothers.[18]
In the 1966 movie Batman, the song was being performed by an on-stage singer (Julie Gregg) in a romantic restaurant that Bruce Wayne (Adam West) had unwittingly taken Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) to on a date, thinking she was the Russian journalist "Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisoff".
. Baez. Joan. Joan Baez. Joan Baez, Volume 2 (audio recording). 1961. Vanguard Records. New York. Plaisir d'amour. 6 May 2017 -->.