"Plaisir d'amour" is a classical French love song written in 1780 by Jean Paul Égide Martini

Jean Paul Egide Martini

Jean Paul Egide Martini, was a composer of classical music. Sometimes known as Martini Il Tedesco, he is best known today for the vocal romance "Plaisir d'Amour," on which the 1961 Elvis Presley standard "Can't Help Falling in Love" is based...

 (1741-1816). Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...

 arranged it for orchestra. It has been arranged and performed in various pop music settings.
The song, composed in 1780, took its text from a poem by Jean de Florian

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

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 (1755–1794), which appears in his romance, Célestine. The classical French composer Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...

 (1803–1869) arranged the piece for orchestra (H134) in 1859.

Notable interpretations of the song include those of Joan Baez

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, The Seekers

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, Vicki Brown, Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull

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, Brigitte Bardot

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, Karrin Allyson

Karrin Allyson

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, Nana Mouskouri

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 and Charlotte Church

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