# Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?

"Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?" (French pronunciation:, transl. What Remains of Our Loves?) is a French popular song, with music by Léo Chauliac and Charles Trenet, 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

This song was first recorded by the French singer Lucienne Boyer in 1942 (78 rpm, Columbia Records: BF 68). The next recording was by the French crooner Roland Gerbeau in February 1943 (78 rpm, Polydor Records: 524.830). Charles Trenet recorded his own version in July 1943 (78 rpm Columbia Records: DF 3116).

## "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 1957 by Keely Smith as the title cut of her solo debut album, I Wish You Love, and was one of Smith's signature songs. Smith's debut album otherwise consisted of standards. She later recalled:
   [when] we sat down to select the songs, [record producer] Voyle Gilmore...played a bunch of standards and he said, "I want to play you a really pretty French song [...] it won't mean nothing and you won't do it in the album but I just thought I'd play it for you" and he played "I Wish You Love". So, at the end of him playing all these songs [...] I said: "Babe, I'll sing any 11 songs y'all want me to but I want to sing 'I Wish You Love'."

## Other recordings

It has since become a standard, with many other recordings:
* Gloria Lynne'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).
* Dalida recorded the song in 1972.
* Rony Verbiest recorded the song in 2001.
* An Italian version entitled "Che cosa resta" was recorded by Franco Battiato in 1999.
* An Arabic version entitled "Shou Byeb'a" was recorded by Carla Chamoun in 2020.

### Other notable recordings

* Ronnie Aldrich
* The Artistics
* Isabelle Aubret
* Baguette Quartet
* Chet Baker
* The Bachelors
* Long John Baldry
* Gigliola Cinquetti
* Michael Ball
* Shirley Bassey
* Gianni Basso
* Joe Bataan
* Alla Bayanova (in Romanian as "Ce-a Mai Rămas?")
* Vicki Benet
* Paloma Berganza
* Maria Bethânia
* Bruno Bertone
* Ray Brown
* Michael Bublé
* Ray Bryant
* Maria Amapola Cabase
* Ana Caram (in Portuguese as "Nossos Amores")
* Joyce Carr
* Liane Carroll
* Johnny Case
* Jeanne Castle
* Ray Charles
* Rosemary Clooney
* Nat King Cole
* Natalie Cole
* Harry Connick Jr.
* Chris Connor
* Russell Conway
* Sam Cooke
* Van Craven
* Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1956 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009.
* Bette Davis
* Joey DeFrancesco
* Tony DeSare
* Blossom Dearie
* Marlene Dietrich
* Joe Diorio
* Bill Doggett
* Arielle Dombasle
* The Drifters
* Harry "Sweets" Edison
* Diego Figueiredo & Cyrille Aimée
* Ella Fitzgerald
* The Five Jades
* Buddy Fo
* Sergio Franchi
* Vincent Franco
* Alison Fraser
* Friends of Dean Martinez
* Laura Fygi
* Judy Garland
* John Gary
* Stan Getz and Kenny Barron
* João Gilberto
* Benny Goodman
* Eydie Gorme
* Robert Goulet
* Graciela
* Buddy Greco
* Benny Green
* Grant Green
* Françoise Hardy & Alain Bashung (duet)
* Niki Haris
* Billy Hawks
* Bill Henderson
* Ian Hendrickson-Smith
* Ron Hevener
* Earl Hines
* Engelbert Humperdinck
* Willie Hutch
* Walter Hyatt
* Chrissie Hynde
* Jermaine Jackson
* Joni James
* Jack Jones
* Patricia Kaas
* Stacey Kent
* Rebecca Kilgore
* Kathy Kirby
* Eartha Kitt (1966)
* La Rondalla de Saltillo (in Spanish as "Te deseo amor", it reached number #1 in Mexico in 1969)
* Laufey (recorded both for her EP Typical of Me and her live album A Night at the Symphony with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra)
* Jerry Lee Lewis
* Julie London
* Dean Martin
* Nancy Martinez
* Johnny Mathis
* Chris Montez
* Mark Murphy
* Lisa Ono
* Trijntje Oosterhuis
* Rosa Passos and Henri Salvador
* Esther Phillips
* Princess in 1988
* Jonathan Richman
* Giant Sand
* George Shearing
* Frank Sinatra - It Might as Well Be Swing (1964)
* The Singers Unlimited
* The Skatalites
* Keely Smith
* Dusty Springfield (September 12, 1967, Live at the BBC)
* Rod Stewart and Chris Botti
* Barbra Streisand
* David T. Walker
* Dionne Warwick
* Kristy White
* Barney Wilen
* Andy Williams released a version on his 1960 album, Under Paris Skies.
* Cris Williamson
* Nancy Wilson
* Victor Wood
* Rachael Yamagata
* Pia Zadora
* Vero Perez
* Brazilian singer Salomé de Bahia in 2002
* VARITDA in Mood (2020)

## Use in film

The song was heard in several films:
* It was used extensively in the François Truffaut film Stolen Kisses (1968), its French title, Baisers volés, having been taken from the song's lyrics.
* The song was also used in the films "Iris" (2001), "Something's Gotta Give" (2003), and "Ces amours-là" (2010).
* A performance of the song is featured in the film "Une jeune fille qui va bien" (2021).