"Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" (, ) is a French popular song, with music by

Léo Chauliac Léo Chauliac, né Léon Chauliac (6 February 1913 – 27 October 1977), was a French jazz pianist, composer and conductor. A jazz pianist in the 1930s, Léo Chauliac was the accompanist of Charles Trenet from 1941 to 1943, a singer for whom he c ...

and

Charles Trenet Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (; 18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years. These songs inclu ...

, and lyrics by Trenet. A version of the song with English lyrics entitled "I Wish You Love" is recognizable by the opening line "I wish you bluebirds, in the spring".

History

The first release of the song was by French

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Roland Gerbeau in February 1943 (78 rpm,

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: 524.830). Charles Trenet recorded his own version in July 1943 (78 rpm Columbia Records: DF 3116). French singer

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's version was released in March 1944 (

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: BF 68).

"I Wish You Love"

The song is best known to anglophone audiences as "I Wish You Love", with new lyrics by American composer and lyricist, Albert Askew Beach (1924-1997). "I Wish You Love" was introduced in

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as the title cut of her solo debut album, '' I Wish You Love'', and was one of Smith's

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s. Smith's debut album otherwise consisted of

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s. She later recalled:

Other recordings

It has since become a

, with many other recordings: *

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's 1963 recording for the Everest label reached No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 and the top ten on the Easy Listening chart, and #3 on Cashbox Magazine's R&B chart (Billboard did not publish standard R&B listings during 1964). *

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recorded the song in 1972. *Rony Verbiest recorded the song in 2001. *An

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version entitled "Che cosa resta" was recorded by

Franco Battiato Francesco "Franco" Battiato (; 23 March 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs explore many themes (including, but not limited to, ph ...

in 1999. *An

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version entitled "Shou Byeb'a" was recorded by

Carla Chamoun Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ''ceorl'' in Old English, which means "free man". People Notable people with the name include: * Carla Lazzari (born 2005), French singer and former member of the children's mus ...

in 2020.

Other notable recordings

Use in film

The song was heard in several films: *It was used extensively in the

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film ''

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'' (1968), its French title, ''Baisers volés'', having been taken from the song's lyrics. *The song was also used in the films "

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" (2001), " Something's Gotta Give" (2003), and "

Ces amours-là ''What Love May Bring'' () is a 2010 French film directed by Claude Lelouch. It is also known as ''What Love May Bring''. Plot Ilva is a woman who falls in love too easily. Unaware and unconcerned about how her passion may be perceived, she find ...

" (2010). *A performance of the song is featured in the film " Une jeune fille qui va bien" (2021).

References

External links

Song lyric
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