Memoir (disambiguation)  

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Memoir, Memoire, Memoirs, Mémoires, and similar terms can refer to:

• Memoir, a literary genre or a reminiscence, a subclass of autobiography.
• Mémoire, in French culture, a (usually short and incisive) piece of writing allowing the author to show his or her opinion on a given subject.
• Mémoires, an artist's book made by the French artist & theorist Guy Debord in collaboration with the Danish artist Asger Jorn.
• Memoire (aka Memoire DX), a 1994 album by gothic rock band Malice Mizer.
• Memoir '44, a light war-themed strategy board game.
• Mémoires affectives (aka Looking for Alexander), a French language Canadian drama film by Francis Leclerc.
• European Memoirs (aka Memoir), a 1982 jazz album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band.

Biographical texts and other publications

• Memoir (John McGahern Book), an autobiographical account of the childhood of Irish author John McGahern.
• Memoir of Halldór Laxness, the (eventually three volume) memoir of novelist and Nobel Laureate, Halldór Laxness.
• Mémoires (Berlioz) (aka Mémoires de Hector Berlioz), an autobiography by French composer Hector Berlioz.
• Mémoires, an artists' book by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn.
• Memoirs of Hadrian (Mémoires d'Hadrien), a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar describing the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian.
• Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave), an autobiography in 42 volumes by François-René de Chateaubriand.
• Memoirs of a Madman (Mémoires d'un fou), an autobiographical text written by Gustave Flaubert in 1838.
• Mémoires secrets (Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la République des Lettres en France depuis 1762 jusqu'à nos jours), an anonymous chronicle of events that occurred between 1762 and 1787.
• Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Pamiętnik znaleziony w wannie), a 1961 science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem.
• Memoirs of a Cavalier, a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe.
• Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, a 1928 novel by Siegfried Sassoon.
• Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical Society, a scientific journal published at various times by the UK Chemical Society.

Music Albums

• Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, a 2009 album by Mariah Carey