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Mon amour, mon ami

song by Marie Laforêt

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2023
Entity authorityQ46519945 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Mon amour, mon ami" is a song by French singer and actress Marie Laforêt. It originally appeared on her 1967 EP Marie Laforêt vol. XIII (also known as Mon amour, mon ami).

Composition

The song was written by André Popp and Eddy Marnay.

Track listing

7-inch EP Marie Laforêt vol. XIII (1967, Festival FX 1531 M)

A1. "Mon amour, mon ami"

A2. "Sébastien"

B1. "Je suis folle de vous"

B2. "Mon village au fond de l'eau"

Charts

"Mon amour, mon ami" / "Je suis folle de vous"

Covers

In 1968 Turkish singer Gönül Yazar covered the song in Turkish as "Çapkın Kız".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mon amour, mon ami” is song by Marie Laforêt. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through amour, song and Marie, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1531, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967. For this dossier, amour, song and Marie is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “song by Marie Laforêt” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q46519945. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1531 and 1968.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mon amour, mon ami”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mon amour, mon ami primary sources, Mon amour, mon ami archive and amour research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Mon amour, mon ami”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mon amour, mon ami” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.