The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82928 Message #2762000
Posted By: GUEST,A. Coletes
08-Nov-09 - 06:40 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Vive l'Amour/Vive La Compagnie
Subject: RE: Origins: Vive l'Amour/Vive La Compagnie
Byron writes:
Mariana has made a conquest of Dervise Tahiri, Viscille [,]Fletcher and Sullee my new Tartar have each a mistress, "Vive l'Amour!"
Letter to J.C. Hobhouse from Athens, 23 August 1810.
Byron writes the words in quotation marks. If this is what I think it is, then it is the earliest reference so far to the song!