Farmer explained that "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" is "a pamphlet written as we take revenge on men, taboos, childhood".

[11] The horse used in the video by Farmer was borrowed from Mario Luraschi, a specialist in film stunts, which had a farm at the Abbey of Chaalis, France.

The editor of Tradition Magazine, Jean-Louis Viau, was responsible for ensuring the historical reality of the video and to avoid anachronisms,[11] and taught the extras to handle weapons of the 18th century.

[17] Farmer, who shows her breasts and her buttocks in the video, said she was a little intimidated by the nudity scenes, and was afraid of commentaries by technicians, but that finally all happened very well.

[16] Yann Babilee, who played the role of the English officer, explained in an interview that he was immediately charmed by the screenplay of the music video.

Meanwhile, the captain of the British Army realizes that his troops have taken the wrong road and are in France rather than being in Prussia (the words, in English, are subtitled in French language).

While they make love, the rival of Libertine, in connivance with the French army, brings prostitutes in the camp to distract the British troops.

As the burning camps are left filled with dead bodies scattered on the ground, Libertine picks up the young drummer, while the soldiers of the French army watch them leaving on horseback.

Some scenes, including the slow images filmed in low-angle shots which show drunk infantrymen running after scantily clad prostitutes, and wine flowing over topless prostitutes who are cavorting on the ground, were removed when the video was presented in prime time on television.

[22] To the author Erwan Chuberre, it was a "disproportionate masterpiece for a music video and marked the spirits and the majority of journalists present at the preview (...) were won over".

[22] The psychologist Hugues Royer considered the video as a "historical masterpiece, written as a real short movie".

[28] In terms of sales, "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" is also Farmer's second biggest success ever, behind "Désenchantée".

[2] Farmer also performed the song on a Dutch (on 2 December 1990), and a Danish (in January 1991) programmes, and on Tapis Rouge (11 September 1999).

During the 1989 tour, Farmer wore a red spandex pantyhose, heel boots, transparent gray veil.

While the musical bridge continued, Farmer joined the dancers who removed the bottom of her dress; two of them lifted the singer.

The song was covered by Lorie in 2003,[33][34] by Réjane for a 1989 hits compilation,[35] and by some contestants of the French show Star Academy 1.

The song is played in a version instrumental in the closing credits of the video for "Pourvu qu'elles soient douces".