Written by Françoise Hardy with a music composed by Clerc, it was the first single from his 15th studio album Fais-moi une place, on which it appears as the seventh track, and was released in January 1990.

It achieved success in France where it was a top ten hit and won the category "Song of the year" at the 1991 Victoires de la Musique.

Elia Habib, an expert of the French charts, qualified it as a "1990s standard",[4] and Anthony Martin of RTL deemed it a "great" and "melancholy" song.

In 1990, American group Comateens covered the song in a very bubble gum version titled "A place for Me", which was released as a single in 1991.

In 2019, Clerc covered the song as a duet with his daughter Vanille and considered that this version expressed more the love between parents and children.