It achieved great success in France, topping the chart for six nonconsecutive weeks, and remains Feldman's signature song and a classic of 1980s French music.

According to the expert of French chart Elia Habib, the song is a "romantic ballad, whose identity remains a salve savour in the subject as well as in the musical coloration".

[1] The song is based on a pun and all the text is declined as well, juggling with the likeness and the consonance of terms between them (e.g. "dans la Rome antique, errent les romantiques").

In France, "Les Valses de Vienne" started at number 38 on the chart edition of 23 November 1989, climbed regularly and entered the top ten three weeks later.

Then it almost did not stop to drop and fell off the top 50 after 23 weeks,[3] and achieved Gold status awarded by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.