"Je te rends ton amour" (English: "I'm Giving You Your Love Back") is a 1999 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer. The second single from her fifth studio album Innamoramento, it was released on 8 June 1999. The song became another top 10 hit in France for Farmer, and its controversial music video gained considerable attention at the time, being censored by several television channels. Background and writing After the release of "L'Âme-stram-gram", rumours announced "Dessine-moi un mouton" as second single from Innamoramento, with a video inspired by Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Le Petit Prince, featuring the crash of an airplane. However, Farmer decided to release her favorite song of the album, "Je te rends ton amour", instead. This song, whose music was composed by Laurent Boutonnat primarily for Nathalie Cardone, enabled the album to remain in the top of the charts during the 1999 summer. The single was released in various formats providing a new song, "Effets secondaires", as well as two remixes produced by Perky Park. The image used for various covers, made by Marino Parisotto Vay, shows Farmer being crucified. The designer Henry Neu said to be particularly proud of having made the velvet envelope containing a promotional cross-shaped CD. Lyrics and music The lyrics contain several references about painting, including Egon Schiele (referenced by name in the refrain), an Austrian painter born in 1890 and died at 28, who painted many thin red-headed women, and who was much appreciated by Farmer. His painting Femme nue debout is even mentioned in the chorus. French painter Paul Gauguin is also cited in the lyrics, as well as the lexical field of painting. In the song, Farmer evokes a Schiele's painting, La Femme nue debout, and personifies the model painted. She also uses the typography of Schiele's signature to write the song's title on the cover of the CD and vinyl. According to the author Erwan Chuberre, the song deals with "a too heavy love to hold or with a weight of an artist on his work". Music video Production and plot For the first time in Farmer's career, the video was directed by François Hanss. Shot for two days in the Notre-Dame-du-Val abbey of Mériel (Val-d'Oise, France), this Requiem Publishing and Stuffed Monkey production cost about 100,000 euros. The screenplay was written by Mylène Farmer. At the beginning of the video, we see a blind woman,