If Memory Serves

By way of precaution = 1 preface, preamble, or rather, monologue = 2 Way I was born A date = 6 My father in 1882 = 8 Round trip to St.Petersburg Kidnaped = 11 My vocation = 14 My true vocation = 17 My debut = 20 Petersburg to Paris = 24 Eleven Schools Monsieur de Saint-Ange Bautier = 28 Janson-de-Sailly = 32 Sainte-Croix-deNeuilly = 36 Father Didon = 41 At Schlumberg's = 45 Father Metayer = 55 Institution Chevalier = 57 Hoswell's = 57 My Tenth School = 60 Penultimate = 62 The Last = 62 Reflections Suggested by My twelve schools = 63 Friends and Family Madame Sarah = 68 Family Matters = 81 Among the Noblest Gestures = 77 Rene de Pont-Jest = 78 My First Love = 83 I am Introduce to Mounet-Sully = 85 My first adventure = 86 Another adventure = 89 My father and his friends = 92 The reading of "L'aiglon" = 95 The musketeers = 97 Octave Mirbeau = 99 At le breuil = 101 A disastrous performance = 103 Celine chaumont = 107 "L'aiglon" in rehearsal = 111 Alice lavigne = 117 Choosing a career Actor? Writer? Artist? = 121 My first play = 124 I want to be an Actor = 128 I take a lesson from talbot = 129 I make my first appearance at Versailles = 131 A succession of revelations 1904-1905 = 132 Holland, or rather - Painting = 135 Alfred Jarry = 137 Fined one hundred francs = 141 Alphonse Allais = 146 Why and how I became a playwright avowlas = 151 "La Parisienne" and Paul Ferrier = 154 I Play in Comedy at Saint-Valery-en-Caux = 156 "Nono" = 160 The First Setbacks = 168 "Le Kwtz" = 173 "I Have Two Kings" = 179 "Chez les Zoaques" = 183 "La Clef" = 184 Closing Tonight = 190 The Actor and the Playwright = 194 My first tour Why go touring? = 198 Impresarios-Great and true = 201 the tour = 206 The American tour 1926-1927 Mr. Al Woods = 209 Departure = 211 Debarkation = 213 The Leviathan = 217 New york = 219 "Mr. Guitry, What do you think of America?" = 221 Montreal = 230 Mr. Woods sends us home = 233 Home again = 235 Lucien Guitry in "Pasteur" = 240 Random Memories Pauline Carton = 245 Mussolini = 252 Joe Jackson = 257 Guignol = 258 Two Friends from the Provinces = 263 Clemenceau = 277 The countess de Noailles = 290 Do you like Good stories? = 295 A last word = 300 Notes by the translator = 303

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