The song was composed by Paul de Senneville and one Jean Baudlot. This was de Senneville's third consecutive Monegasque Eurovision entry, in 1977 and 1978 he had written "Une petite française" and "Les jardins de Monaco" in collaboration with Olivier Toussaint and the lyricists Jean Albertini and Didier Barbelivien. Composer Jean Baudlot, in turn, is in fact the same person as the artist Laurent Vaguener; this was a pseudonym occasionally used by Baudlot in the late 1970s and early 1980s, sometimes spelt Laurent Wagner.