and your emptiness/Your weaknesses and your tiredness/Don't mean anything to me anymore/With you I am not anything", and "Without a future or present/I don't feel like it anymore/That waste of my time". "Doigts" ("Fingers") has been considered the most sensual song in the album, as its lyrics "describe the art of communication through touch." It is followed by "La maison" ("The House"), an "[intensely melancholic]" track in which Hardy combines singing with spoken word. The main melody of "Si mi caballero" ("Yes My Gentleman") is both sung and whistled. "Bâti mon nid" ("Built My Nest") has been described as "a lively Brazilian jazz piece featuring a female-male vocal duet, an energetic double bass line and wonderful syncopation." With its "la-la-la" chorus, the song presents a "particularly catchy" moment of the album. Closing track "Rêve" ("Dream") is a cover of "A transa", a song by Taiguara. Author Richie Unterberger felt that "Hardy curbs the fussiest excesses of the original, and adds some pretty enchanting cloud-drifting scat vocals through most of the arrangement." It also features a "la-la-la" refrain, followed by Hardy's lyrics: "You marvel me like a dream/That finally came true/And you hurt me like a dream/I shall awake from". The "progrescent passage" of the almost instrumental track has been noted for its resemblance to "The Court of the Crimson King", a 1969 song by King Crimson. Release La question was released as a LP record on October 16, 1971, on Sonopresse. That year, the album was also released in Spain on Hispavox, in Mexico on Gamma, in Australia on Interfusion, in the Netherlands on CBS, and in Canada on Reprise Records. Due to its sensuality – and consequent associations with the erotic novel Histoire d'O – the track "Chanson d'O" was threatened with prohibition in Spain, prompting an irritated Hardy to state: "How could I do porn? It is absurd." In South Africa, the album was released under the title Rêve on MVN. The album received the title Un recueil de mes poésies ("A collection of my poems") in Japan, where it was released in 1974 on Epic. Sonopresse released three 7" record singles from La question: "Le martien" and "Même sous la pluie" in 1971, and "Rêve" in 1972. The latter contained "Poisson" as its B-side, a previously unreleased track written by Jacques Blanchard. The album was first reissued as a compact disc (CD) in 1988 on record label