Mille regretz is a four-voice chanson from the 16th century whose attribution to Josquin des Prez is almost certainly erroneous. The song evidently draws some of its melodic material from Josquin's securely attributed five-voice Du mien amant.
Mille regretz was a favourite of the Emperor Charles V and it is known in Spanish as La canción del Emperador. Apart from its plangent simplicity, musicians were presumably attracted by the royal connection: Spanish reworkings from the 16th-century include a mass setting by Cristóbal de Morales and variations for vihuela by Luis de Narváez and there is a chanson (SATTBB) by court composer Nicolas Gombert.
Translations differ in their interpretation of the words 'fache/face amoureuse' in line 2 (variously "amorous anger" or "loving face").